{"id":78236,"date":"2021-11-24T14:18:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T14:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=78236"},"modified":"2021-12-07T17:30:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T17:30:28","slug":"uri-undergraduates-develop-napnea-system-to-monitor-infant-breathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2021\/11\/uri-undergraduates-develop-napnea-system-to-monitor-infant-breathing\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 undergraduates develop Napnea system to monitor infant breathing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Nov. 24, 2021 \u2013 Infant apnea is defined by the American Academy of Pediatrics as “an unexplained episode of cessation of breathing for 20 seconds or longer, or a shorter respiratory pause associated with bradycardia, cyanosis, pallor, and\/or marked hypotonia.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While infant apnea is very rarely fatal, it is frightening to the observer, and some theories even link it to sudden infant death syndrome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afnan Altekreeti, a senior studying biomedical engineering<\/a> at the 溏心vlog免费B站, has been working with her peers Michaela Roberts and Dan Convey on a project called, Napnea, which is a neonatal apnea detection system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Afnan Altekreeti, 溏心vlog免费B站 biomedical engineering student<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The project is a continuation of a senior capstone design project Sarah Leighton and Madeline Seater worked on last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Napnea is an electronic textile-based respiration monitoring system consisting of a soft electronic textile chest belt that is integrated with a force sensor and a computing system to monitor respiration, periodic breathing and apnea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Napnea system shows promise to be a cost-effective, user-friendly method to monitor respiration and apnea,” said Altekreeti. “The system addresses real-world, time-sensitive health data for our population\u2019s most vulnerable infants.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Altekreeti, Roberts and Convey have been conducting their research in the Wearable Biosensing Laboratory under the guidance of Associate Professor Kunal Mankodiya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There have been many obstacles to overcome and many late nights working in the lab,” said Altekreeti, who lives in Warwick<\/strong>. “One technical challenge we faced was the results of the respiration simulator not being 100% accurate at first.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another challenge has been preparing to present the project at an international conference in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 16-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We didn’t learn about the opportunity to attend the conference until a few weeks before the deadline, making it difficult for us to put together a proposal in a short time frame,” said Altekreeti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies<\/a> is co-hosted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Altekreeti received a $600 award from the National Science Foundation to cover the expenses of attending the conference. She’ll attend the conference with her mentor, G\u00f6zde \u00c7ay, a doctoral student in computer engineering at 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Afnan has been a dedicated undergraduate researcher who is now taking the smart textiles project to a different level,” said Mankodiya. “This travel award is an example of her outstanding efforts that was further shaped by her mentor G\u00f6zde \u00c7ay.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Nov. 24, 2021 \u2013 Infant apnea is defined by the American Academy of Pediatrics as “an unexplained episode of cessation of breathing for 20 seconds or longer, or a shorter respiratory pause associated with bradycardia, cyanosis, pallor, and\/or marked hypotonia.”  While infant apnea is very rarely fatal, it is frightening to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":78237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78236"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78286,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78236\/revisions\/78286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}