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Generally, due to the population's growth, the importance of health care also increases. Nowadays, many advanced techniques are carried out in the medical field. According to Dudde et al. (2006), an intravenous infusion is an essential practice in clinical treatments. Intravenous fluid monitoring plays a significant role in many medical treatments. Nowadays, many devices are developed in a healthcare environment to ensure patients' safety. Μοreover, there will be a huge demand for using IV drip to treat patient diseases during pandemic situations and increase patient health immunity. SARS-CoV (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Corona Virus) is a virus that originated from animals (Bats) in Gingdong province in China in 2002. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), this virus has spread around 26 countries, and more than 8000 cases were registered around the world. Human to human transmission is found to be the reason for the rapid spread. SARS-CoV symptoms include fever, headache, myalgia, diarrhea and shivering (Weiss et al. 2011). At the same time, the disease was declared an epidemic by the WHO. In 2012 MERS-CoV (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome- Corona Virus) broke out in Saudi Arabia (Erika et al. 2020). Until 2020 around 2519 people were infected by MERS. A genetic variation of SARS-CoV was active in 2019 and is coined as SARS-CoV2 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) (Chih Cheng Lai et al. 2020). It originated in the Wuhan province of China from Bats (Phelan et al. 2020). The disease caused by SARS-CoV2 was named the 2019 novel Corona Virus (2019- nCoV).
Later it was called COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease 2019) when announced as a pandemic disease by WHO. The virus is known to affect the infected respiratory system (Shereen et al. 2020). It takes around a minimum of five days to show any symptoms of virus infection. In some instances, it has even taken around 24 days Symptoms include fever, sore throat, body ache and troubled breathing (Huang et al. 2020; Guan et al. 2020). The virus travels through our windpipe to reach the lungs. Air sacs will be developed inside the lungs, which causes trouble in breathing.
Around 14% of the affected people had this trouble. These critical patients were kept on a ventilator, and timely care was needed. It is also believed that the disease is fatal in persons above age 60 or anyone with prior life-threatening diseases like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, and cancer. Human to human transmission is significantly due to droplets from the mouth. A person is also prone to illness if the person comes to contact with any surface with an active virus.
The spread of the virus is growing very fast, and the number of infected patients is rapidly increasing. The research reported no vaccine for this disease. However, various manufacturers are researching to find a cure at the earliest. Due to increasing the number of infected patients, providing timely, reliable treatment for diseases by healthcare network's becomes challenging. It is also tough to monitor inpatient health status by a caretaker due to the spread of the virus.
As a result, it is necessary to bring other technologies to the treatment of infected patients in an instrumental healthcare network.
The purpose of this article is to provide an efficient and straightforward prospective implementation of GSM-based wireless monitoring of intravenous fluid level, pulse rate and respiration rate of the patients. The scientific environment's relevant information has been reviewed and proposed a reliable system in an e-healthcare network.