Review of Point of Care Device for Anemia Detection
Reeja S R , Nikhita A*
DOI : 10.46890/SL.2021.v02i03.005
Abstract
Our project is meant to support medical research within the detection of anemia through a point of care device. A disorder in which there aren’t enough healthy red blood cells in the blood. The absence of red cells or the presence of dysfunctional red blood corpuscle in the body causes it. As a result, oxygen supply to the body’s organs is decreased. It’s a condition characterized by light oxygen delivery to cells and tissues among the body and it affects roughly quite ten million cases p.a. in India. Causes of anemia are attributed to malnutrition, low glycoprotein production, nephrosis, and sorts of cancer. Current tests for anemia involve invasive blood sampling and expensive diagnostic procedures to provide results. The invention of a non-invasive portable hematocrit sensing element to help in anaemia diagnosis at the point of care has advanced anaemia identification and treatment. Using the variance of absorption of IR and red light of oxygenated Hb (HbO2) and deoxygenated hemoglobin (Hb) a portable sensing element was designed and created to see oxygen saturation – the foremost reliable technique of anemia detection.
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Our project is meant to support medical research within the detection of anemia through a point of care device. A disorder in which there aren’t enough healthy red blood cells in the blood. The absence of red cells or the presence of dysfunctional red blood corpuscle in the body causes it. As a result, oxygen supply to the body’s organs is decreased. It’s a condition characterized by light oxygen delivery to cells and tissues among the body and it affects roughly quite ten million cases p.a. in India. Causes of anemia are attributed to malnutrition, low glycoprotein production, nephrosis, and sorts of cancer. Current tests for anemia involve invasive blood sampling and expensive diagnostic procedures to provide results. The invention of a non-invasive portable hematocrit sensing element to help in anaemia diagnosis at the point of care has advanced anaemia identification and treatment. Using the variance of absorption of IR and red light of oxygenated Hb (HbO2) and deoxygenated hemoglobin (Hb) a portable sensing element was designed and created to see oxygen saturation – the foremost reliable technique of anemia detection.