3. Vital signs are an important
component of patient care.
Vital signs include pulse
rate, temperature,
respiration rate, and other
key factors crucial in
determining the status of
one’s health.
4. What is the difficulty
in measuring one’s
vital signs?
5. One may undergo
difficulties since
measuring vital signs is
not only a repetitive but
it is also a time consuming
task. Also, at some point,
inaccuracy of the vital
signs cannot be avoided.
7. Although there are difficulties, the
need to measure the vital signs is of
crucial importance in the field of
medicine as it gives an indication of
the patient’s physiological state and
also informs required interventions.
It determines which treatment
protocols to follow and provide
critical information needed to make a
precise decision.
8. Considering the aforementioned
problems, the researchers formulated
ideas to give solutions and ended up
with the idea of innovating HeMAR, a
health monitoring arm rest that could
update the of the user’s vital signs.
The Arm Rest were manually made by the
researchers and are built with
material which are commonly found on
local hardware stores such as plywood,
batteries, wires and acrylic glass.
10. Specifically, this study aimed
to determine the heart rate,
pulse oximetry, and body
temperature of the user
through HeMAR, the time it
took for the data to notify
the mode of display and the
total cost of the Health
Monitoring Arm Rest.
12. The Descriptive Research Method was
used in this study. The method was
used in an observational manner. In
this study, the HeMAR was evaluated
by the time interval it took to
notify the mode of display, and the
data in terms of heart rate, pulse
oximetry, and body temperature. The
researchers used human subjects as
the user of the HeMAR as sources of
data gathered.
14. The construction of the Health
Monitoring Arm Rest, the installation
of the Arduino UNO, programming and
integration of the sensors were
performed at Barangay Mansilingan
with the help of Mr. David Collins
Alvarez and Mr. Nicolu Montefalcon,
Mechanical Engineering graduates of
the Technological University of the
Philippines - Visayas.
15. The HeMAR, if undergoes further
improvement, could be an alternative
for the commercial hospital
equipment. It was found capable of
giving data to a patient’s vital
signs having an average of 34.7
seconds as the duration time of the
device to show the data for heart
rate, pulse oximetry and temperature
to any mode of display.
