title: Preliminary assessment of the SensiumVitals®: A low-cost wireless solution for patient surveillance in the general wards.
abstract: This paper presents SensiumVitals(®) - an FDA cleared and CE marked wireless wearable vital signs monitoring system, developed for frequent surveillance of in-hospital patients. A number of in-house evaluations with artificial data and healthy volunteers were carried out in different stages to assess the reliability of two crucial vital signs measured by the system - respiration and heart rate. In order to illustrate the potential of the system in hospital, a subset of data collected from acutely-ill patients during a separate clinical trial was also analyzed. In all cases the results revealed satisfactory agreement between the values reported by SensiumVitals(®) and those recorded simultaneously by a clinically-approved bedside monitor. However, further work will be required to improve the reliability of the system under certain clinical conditions; which, although not crucial for our intended population (i.e. patients in general ward), pose interesting challenges for upgrading our technology for future use in these types of patients.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hernandez-Silveira
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wieczorkowski-Rettinger
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ang
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Burdett
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D010362:Patients' Rooms; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012119:Respiration; D059015:Wireless Technology / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation