BME100 s2014:T Group9 L3

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OUR TEAM Name: Mohammed Binshelail Name: Katherine Underwood Name: Cassaundra Kinnear Name: Kyle Queen LAB 3A WRITE-UP Descriptive Statistics Blood Pressure: BP Cuff Average: 120.1660517mmHg Watch Average: 113.5719557mmHg BP Cuff Standard Deviation: 17.76383422mmHg Watch Standard Deviation: 13.60777921mmHg BP Cuff Error: 4.308362636 Watch Error: 3.300371236 Heart Rate: Pulse Ox Average: 85.61764706b/m Watch Average: 83.31617647b/m Pulse Ox Standard Deviation: 17.83692378b/m Watch Standard Deviation: 16.50257822b/m Pulse Ox Error: 4.326089457 Watch Error: 4.002463123 Temperature: Oral Average: 96.60454545 F Sensor Average: 97.12272727 F Oral Standard Deviation:0.8616 F Sensor Standard Deviation:0.47703 F Oral Standard Error:0.183694324572 Sensor Standard Error:0.101702353721 Results All Blood Pressure is in mmHg and all heart rate is beats/minute All degrees are Fahrenheit Error Bars are used for all graphs Analysis Blood Pressure: T.test: 6.47149E-06 Pearson R: -0.367022415 Heart Rate: T.test: 0.001000889 Pearson R: -0.089323207 Temperature: T.test: 5.20901E-05 Pearson's R: -0.042725024 There was significant difference in the p-value of the blood pressure, heart rate, and temperature. The p-value was smaller than .05 for each. These numbers show there is a confidence level of more than 95%; or there is an uncertainty of less than 5%. Summary/Discussion One of the design flaws for this experiment exists in the watch blood pressure sensor. Cuff sensors are used everyday in almost every doctor's office around the world. Obviously these are reliable or they would not be used so often. The watch sensor seems to be in an odd place to calculate one's blood pressure. The cuff is wrapped around the upper part of the arm while the watch is placed on the wrist. Pulse is taken from the wrist typically, but not blood pressure. When finding blood pressure it is best to be as close to the heart as possible. This is why it is normally taken from the upper arm (and an artery is present here). The wrist is obviously further from the heart and will therefore give a skewed reading as seen in the data. In order to fix this, the watch could be designed to fit around the upper arm instead of just the wrist, this way it will get more accurate blood pressure readings. The armpit sensor seems to be an issue as well. It is uncomfortable and gives highly varied readings if the user moves slightly or the sensor is moved. It just seems that this is a product that is not necessarily needed. Mouth readings are more accurate and extremely easy to obtain. Instead of using this armpit sensor, it seems if people want to get the best readings they should just use a mouth thermometer or an ear thermometer. These options are simply more accurate and the technology has been around longer and is therefore more developed. LAB 3B WRITE-UP Target Population and Need Device Design Inferential Statistics Graph