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Evaluation of a Novel Contactless Electrical Impedance Device for Measuring Respiratory and Heart Rates: A Pilot Study

Although the respiratory rate is an important vital sign, it is rarely recorded in hospitals given the lack of convenient measurement devices. Posh Wellness Laboratory Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) developed a novel contactless card-type respiratory/heart rate monitoring device that measures electrical impeda...

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Autores principales: Iwashita, Yoshiaki, Nebuya, Satoru
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34786226
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18622
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description Although the respiratory rate is an important vital sign, it is rarely recorded in hospitals given the lack of convenient measurement devices. Posh Wellness Laboratory Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) developed a novel contactless card-type respiratory/heart rate monitoring device that measures electrical impedance variations on the human chest. This study was aimed to test and validate the accuracy of the proposed device compared with conventional medical monitors. To evaluate the card-type monitoring device, we compared the measurements from the device with those from the mechanical ventilators and electrocardiogram monitors. Patients who were hospitalized in the Emergency Department of Shimane University Hospital from April 5 to 30, 2021 were included in this study. A card-type sensor was attached to five patients who agreed to participate in this study. Four of the five patients were receiving mechanical ventilation. The respiratory rate error provided by the card-type sensor remained within 15% compared with the measurements of the conventional medical monitor. In contrast, the heart rate counts were largely different from the measurements. Thus, the proposed device can successfully measure the respiratory rate, whereas heart rate measurements require further improvement. Our small, lightweight, radiation-free, and contactless monitoring device can conveniently measure the respiratory rate of patients. With the improvement of measuring the heart rate, we would like to assess a larger number and a wider range of patients.
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spelling pubmed-85801142021-11-15 Evaluation of a Novel Contactless Electrical Impedance Device for Measuring Respiratory and Heart Rates: A Pilot Study Iwashita, Yoshiaki Nebuya, Satoru Cureus Emergency Medicine Although the respiratory rate is an important vital sign, it is rarely recorded in hospitals given the lack of convenient measurement devices. Posh Wellness Laboratory Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) developed a novel contactless card-type respiratory/heart rate monitoring device that measures electrical impedance variations on the human chest. This study was aimed to test and validate the accuracy of the proposed device compared with conventional medical monitors. To evaluate the card-type monitoring device, we compared the measurements from the device with those from the mechanical ventilators and electrocardiogram monitors. Patients who were hospitalized in the Emergency Department of Shimane University Hospital from April 5 to 30, 2021 were included in this study. A card-type sensor was attached to five patients who agreed to participate in this study. Four of the five patients were receiving mechanical ventilation. The respiratory rate error provided by the card-type sensor remained within 15% compared with the measurements of the conventional medical monitor. In contrast, the heart rate counts were largely different from the measurements. Thus, the proposed device can successfully measure the respiratory rate, whereas heart rate measurements require further improvement. Our small, lightweight, radiation-free, and contactless monitoring device can conveniently measure the respiratory rate of patients. With the improvement of measuring the heart rate, we would like to assess a larger number and a wider range of patients. Cureus 2021-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8580114/ /pubmed/34786226 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18622 Text en Copyright © 2021, Iwashita et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Evaluation of a Novel Contactless Electrical Impedance Device for Measuring Respiratory and Heart Rates: A Pilot Study
title_sort evaluation of a novel contactless electrical impedance device for measuring respiratory and heart rates: a pilot study
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34786226
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18622
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