A Simple and Low Cost Device for Automatically Supervising Urine Output of Critical Patients

Nowadays, patients admitted to critical care units have most of their physiological parameters sensed by sophisticated commercial monitoring devices. These devices also supervise whether the values of the parameters lie within a preestablished range of normality set by the clinician. If any of the parameters leaves its normality range, an alarm will be triggered. The automation of the sensing and supervision of physiological parameters discharges the healthcare staff of a considerable workload. It also avoids human errors, which are common in repetitive and monotonous tasks.