Evaluating blood oxygen saturation measurements by popular fitness trackers in postoperative patients: A prospective clinical trial.

ABSTRACT: Blood oxygen saturation is an important clinical parameter, especially in postoperative hospitalized patients, monitored in clinical practice by arterial blood gas (ABG) and/or pulse oximetry that both are not suitable for a long-term continuous monitoring of patients during the entire hospital stay, or beyond. Technological advances developed recently for consumer-grade fitness trackers could-at least in theory-help to fill in this gap, but benchmarks on the applicability and accuracy of these technologies in hospitalized patients are currently lacking. We therefore conducted at the postanaesthesia care unit under controlled settings a prospective clinical trial with 201 patients, comparing in total >1,000 oxygen blood saturation measurements by fitness trackers of three brands with the A

SUBMITTER: Helmer P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10590865 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature