Wireless non-invasive continuous respiratory monitoring with FMCW radar: a clinical validation study.

ABSTRACT: Altered respiratory rate is one of the first symptoms of medical conditions that require timely intervention, e.g., sepsis or opioid-induced respiratory depression. To facilitate continuous respiratory rate monitoring on general hospital wards a contactless, non-invasive, prototype monitor was developed using frequency modulated continuous wave radar. We aimed to study whether radar can reliably measure respiratory rate in postoperative patients. In a diagnostic cross-sectional study patients were monitored with the radar and the reference monitor (pneumotachograph during mechanical ventilation and capnography during spontaneous breathing). Eight patients were included; yielding 796 min of observation time during mechanical ventilation and 521 min during spontaneous breathing. After elimin

SUBMITTER: van Loon K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5082588 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature