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Published online 22 March 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040315-15
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Wireless monitor frees patients to roam
Wearable device gets hospital residents and elderly out of bed.
Researchers in Germany have invented a wireless wristband that can monitor heart rates and blood oxygen levels. The invention could liberate recuperating hospital patients or the elderly from their beds.
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