Mimo pillow : an intelligent cushion designed with maternal heart beat vibrations for comforting newborn infants

Wei Chen; S. Bambang Oetomo; D. Tetteroo; F. Versteegh; T. Mamagkaki; M. Serras Pereira; Lindy Janssen; A. Meurs, van

doi:10.1109/JBHI.2014.2349153

Mimo pillow : an intelligent cushion designed with maternal heart beat vibrations for comforting newborn infants

Wei Chen, S. Bambang Oetomo, D. Tetteroo, F. Versteegh, T. Mamagkaki, M. Serras Pereira, Lindy Janssen, A. Meurs, van

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Premature infants are subject to numerous interventions ranging from a simple diaper change to surgery while residing in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs). These neonates often suffer from pain, distress and discomfort during the first weeks of their lives. Although pharmacological pain treatment often is available, it cannot always be applied to relieve a neonate from pain or discomfort. This paper describes a non-pharmacological solution, called Mimo, which provides comfort through mediation of a parent's physiological features to the distressed neonate via an intelligent pillow system embedded with sensing and actuating functions. We present the design, the implementation and the evaluation of the prototype. Clinical tests at Máxima Medical Centre in the Netherlands show that among the 9 of 10 infants who showed discomfort following diaper change, a shorter recovery time to baseline Skin Conductance Analgesimeter (SCA) values could be measured when the maternal heartbeat vibration in the Mimo was switched on and in 7 of these 10 a shorter crying time was measured

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	979-985
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Volume	19
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2014.2349153
Publication status	Published - 2015

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