Continuous wireless sensor monitoring with applied diagnostics: Clinical Sensor Pain Scale and Automated Sensor Pain Scale in the NICU.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Inappropriately treated pain can have deleterious outcomes in infants. Current tools rely on intermittent, subjective observation requiring specialised paediatric skills. This study aimed to diagnose infant pain through continuous monitoring with wireless sensors using Neonatal Pain and Agitation Sedation Scale (NPASS)-derived Clinical Sensor Pain Scale (CSPS) and Automated SPS (ASPS).

Methods

Clinically stable neonatal intensive care unit infants undergoing phlebotomy were recorded with wireless sensors and video, capturing vital signs, extremity movement and vocalisations. Clinicians and non-clinicians scored the sensor data with CSPS and videos with NPASS; ASPS was applied to the sensor data. Median scores were compared, inter-rater reliability assessed with in

SUBMITTER: Slattery S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12658508 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature