Wearable Sensors as a Preoperative Assessment Tool: A Review.

ABSTRACT: Surgery is a common first-line treatment for many types of disease, including cancer. Mortality rates after general elective surgery have seen significant decreases whilst postoperative complications remain a frequent occurrence. Preoperative assessment tools are used to support patient risk stratification but do not always provide a precise and accessible assessment. Wearable sensors (WS) provide an accessible alternative that offers continuous monitoring in a non-clinical setting. They have shown consistent uptake across the perioperative period but there has been no review of WS as a preoperative assessment tool. This paper reviews the developments in WS research that have application to the preoperative period. Accelerometers were consistently employed as sensors in research and were f

SUBMITTER: Syversen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10820534 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature