title: Respiratory monitoring using an air-mattress system.
abstract: This paper describes a non-invasive respiratory monitoring system using an air mattress. The air-mattress system features multiple air compartments to monitor movements of the thorax and the abdomen separately. To evaluate the performance of the air-mattress system, four subjects were selected for the study and their separate ribcage and abdominal movements were monitored simultaneously by respiratory inductive phlethysmography belts and the air-mattress system. The sensitivity and accuracy indices of the air-mattress system for the detection of hypopnoeas scored remarkably well (above 90%). In addition, it was noted that the mean error in the measurement of the respiratory rate between the two systems was very small. This paper shows that the air-mattress system can be a reliable non-invasive respiratory monitoring system to detect simple abnormalities in breathing, such as respiration rate and hypopnoeas.
authors.affiliation: Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Singapore Polytechnic, Republic of Singapore.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chow
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Nagendra
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Abisheganaden
authors.forename: Y T
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen / Q000502:physiology; D000328:Adult; D000388:Air; D000886:Anthropometry; D001513:Beds; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology; D010991:Plethysmography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D015656:Respiratory Mechanics / Q000502:physiology*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology; D020181:Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / Q000503:physiopathology; D013909:Thorax / Q000502:physiology