The current pilot study aims to investigate the feasibility of wireless, continuous monitoring of patients in the days around discharge after an acute medical hospitalization, as well as occurrence of deviating vital signs in this patient group.
The healthcare system is challenged by an aging patient population with chronic diseases, and acute admissions must be housed in hospitals with fewer beds and less staff resources. This increases the need for earlier discharge and for treatment shifted to the patients' own home. Furthermore, the transition from the hospital to the home setting is one of potential hazard, due to the lack of observation and intervention possibilities. This pilot study aims to investigate the feasibility of wireless, continuous monitoring of patients in the days around discharge after an acute medical hospitalization, as well as occurrence of deviating vital signs i in the patients' own homes during the first days after discharge.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
80
Included patients are monitored with WARD equipment during the last part of hospitalization and the first days after discharge. Monitoring will last for a maximum of eight days.
Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg hospital
København NV, Region H, Denmark
Duration of data collection from the Lifetouch patch
Time frame: Up to 8 days of monitoring
Duration of complete peripheral saturation data
Time frame: Up to 8 days of monitoring
Duration of complete blood pressure data
Time frame: Up to 8 days of monitoring
Cummulated duration of desaturation
Peripheral saturation below 88% and 85%
Time frame: Up to 8 days of monitoring
Number of events with SpO2 < 88% in at least 10 consecutive minutes
Time frame: Up to 8 days of monitoring
Number of events with SpO2 < 85% in at least 5 consecutive minutes
Time frame: Up to 8 days of monitoring
Number of deviating vital parameters in accordance to defined microevents
Time frame: Up to 8 days of monitoring
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