Iran-Made Monitoring System Detects Infection in Human Body
“The filling of the urinary catheter bag and the return of urine, urinary infections and pressure on the bladder are among the problems that most patients face when using the urinary catheter,” Sajjad Qofran, a medical engineering student at the Islamic Azad University’s Science and Research branch, told ANA.
“Our research team has succeeded in making a monitor that, equipped with a red light transmitter (red LED) and an RGB receiver sensor, can detect the passing volume of urine without having contact with the urine itself from the catheter hose and informs it to the nursing stations,” he added.
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Noting that the monitor has a series of applications like detecting the presence of blood in urine and hydration and dehydration based on the color of urine, Qofran said, “The return of urine from the urinary bag to the catheter tube is one of the most common causes of disease for patients who use catheter, and this device has been designed to detect this.”
He described the ability to connect to the monitor of the nursing station for hospital use or to connect to the mobile phone through the application for home use as another advantage of the device.
A catheter is a tube that is inserted into the bladder, allowing the urine to drain freely.
The most common reasons for using a catheter are to rest the bladder following an episode of urinary retention and to rest the bladder after surgery – most commonly bladder, bowel or urinary tract surgery.
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