Abstract:
Around 800 women die each day from complications of pregnancy and childbirth in the
world. Vital Signs monitoring (such as blood pressure, pulse rate, and temperature) are
among fundamental parameters of ensuring the health and safety of women and newborns
during pregnancy, labor, and childbirth. Approximately, 10% of women experience hyper tension (greater than140/90) during pregnancy. High blood pressure during pregnancy can
cause extra stress on the heart and kidneys and can increase the risk of heart disease.
Therefore, early recognition of abnormal vital signs, which are induced due to pregnancy
can allow for timely identification of clinical deterioration. Currently used technologies
are expensive and complex design with implementation challenges in low-resource set tings where maternal morbidity and mortality is higher. Thus, considering the above need,
here a hardware device has been designed and developed, which is a low cost, and portable
for pregnant women’s vital signs (with cuff-less blood pressure, heart rate, and body tem perature) monitoring device. The developed device would have a remarkable benefit of
monitoring the maternal vital signs especially for those in low resource settings, where
there is a high paucity of vital signs monitoring devices
