Mack, I; Juchler, N; Rey, S; Hirsch, S; Hoelz, B; Eckstein, J; Bielicki, J
(2022)
Wearable Technologies for Pediatric Patients with Surgical Infections-More than Counting Steps?
Biosensors (Basel), 12 (8).
p. 634.
ISSN 2079-6374
https://doi.org/10.3390/bios12080634
SGUL Authors: Bielicki, Julia Anna
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Abstract
Reliable vital sign assessments are crucial for the management of patients with infectious diseases. Wearable devices enable easy and comfortable continuous monitoring across settings, especially in pediatric patients, but information about their performance in acutely unwell children is scarce. Vital signs were continuously measured with a multi-sensor wearable device (Everion®, Biofourmis, Zurich, Switzerland) in 21 pediatric patients during their hospitalization for appendicitis, osteomyelitis, or septic arthritis to describe acceptance and feasibility and to compare validity and reliability with conventional measurements. Using a wearable device was highly accepted and feasible for health-care workers, parents, and children. There were substantial data gaps in continuous monitoring up to 24 h. The wearable device measured heart rate and oxygen saturation reliably (mean difference, 2.5 bpm and 0.4% SpO2) but underestimated body temperature by 1.7 °C. Data availability was suboptimal during the study period, but a good relationship was determined between wearable device and conventional measurements for heart rate and oxygen saturation. Acceptance and feasibility were high in all study groups. We recommend that wearable devices designed for medical use in children be validated in the targeted population to assure future high-quality continuous vital sign assessments in an easy and non-burdening way.
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Additional Information: | Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | ||||||
Keywords: | children, continuous recording, surgical infections, vital signs, wearable device, Child, Heart Rate, Humans, Monitoring, Physiologic, Reproducibility of Results, Vital Signs, Wearable Electronic Devices, Humans, Monitoring, Physiologic, Reproducibility of Results, Heart Rate, Child, Vital Signs, Wearable Electronic Devices, 0301 Analytical Chemistry, 0601 Biochemistry and Cell Biology | ||||||
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: | Academic Structure > Infection and Immunity Research Institute (INII) | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Biosensors (Basel) | ||||||
ISSN: | 2079-6374 | ||||||
Language: | eng | ||||||
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Publisher License: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||
PubMed ID: | 36005030 | ||||||
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URI: | https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/114733 | ||||||
Publisher's version: | https://doi.org/10.3390/bios12080634 |
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