Comfortable and Washable ECG Electrode Baby Clothes for Newborn Infants Monitoring System to Decrease their Sudden Death

Abstract

To decrease the occurrence of newborn infant sudden death, and to lower the mental burden of nursery teachers, we aspired to develop a newborn infants monitoring system. For newborn baby, the most important portion is how to get ECG signal through baby's skin, and only close electrode, comfortable to touch, dry contact, without binding and pressing had the possibility. In this study, we searched conductive electrode with required features, and considered preferable electrode cloth arrangement in men's shirt, and made ECG electrode Polo shirts comfortable to wear. We performed several long time-measurements at initial and after washed status cloth.