To all,

Attached is few slides of a very simple but very useful solution to the signaling and alerting problem.
The slides were part of a talk that I gave as a rehab professional who needed to care for his own wife.
It's was a different experience having to use ideas and techniques that you had been instructing others to do.
All of the various hospice and caregiving team, and my wife, got great use out of this signaling system.
And it worked great for the problem that was described below!

-Charlie Robinson


 
On Apr 23, 2010, at 1:39 PM, Suzie Goodenough wrote:

Hello Amy,
 
I wanted to check in with you to see if you had connected yet to Ann and Jay.
I had talked to Lee yesterday and she was going to have you call Jay and Ann to help them with the proper alarm system to alert Ann when Jay is having breathing difficulties at night. She cannot hear him with the bi-pap yet he needs to wear it. Ann is thinking of a button type unit perhaps to be pushed from the elbow towards the forearm?
 
I am connecting you via telephone and e-mail but I think best success will be if you two can talk soon. Jay  #916-373-1945
They are not getting much sleep right now and I was really hoping that we could get something for them today if at all possible.
I will do whatever it takes to help to include going to any stores anywhere to buy what is needed.
 
Please let me know what might help.
 
Sincerely,  
 
Suzie Goodenough-Lawson
Patient Care Coordinator
ALSA Greater Sacramento Chapter
916-979-9265 





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Charles J. Robinson, D.Sc., P.E.     Fellow IEEE, Fellow AIMBE,  U.N.E.S.C.O. Academician
Director, Center for Rehabilitation Engineering, Science and Technology (CREST)
Herman L. Shulman Chair Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Adjunct Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehab Dept, Upstate Med Univ, Syracuse, NY
Adjunct Professor, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
Founding, but Past Editor, IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering
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Any good that I can do, or any kindnesses that I can show, 
let me do them now, for I shall not pass this way again.
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