A Low-Cost Breath Analyzer Module in Domiciliary Non-Invasive Mechanical Ventilation for Remote COPD Patient Monitoring

Smart Breath Analyzers were developed as sensing terminals of a telemedicine architecture devoted to remote monitoring of patients suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and home-assisted by non-invasive mechanical ventilation via respiratory face mask. The devices based on different sensors (CO2/O2 and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), relative humidity and temperature (R.H. & T) sensors) monitor the breath air exhaled into the expiratory line of the bi-tube patient breathing circuit during a noninvasive ventilo-therapy session; the sensor raw signals are transmitted pseudonymized to National Health Service units by TCP/IP communication through a cloud remote platform. The work is a proof-of-concept of a sensors-based IoT system with the perspective to check continuously the effectiveness of therapy and/or any state of exacerbation of the disease requiring healthcare. Lab tests in controlled experimental conditions by a gas-mixing bench towards CO2/O2 concentrations and exhaled breath collected in a sampling bag were carried out to test the realized prototypes. The Smart Breath Analyzers were also tested in real conditions both on a healthy volunteer subject and a COPD suffering patient.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:20

Enthalten in:

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) - 20(2020), 3 vom: 24. Jan.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Radogna, Antonio Vincenzo [VerfasserIn]
Siciliano, Pietro Aleardo [VerfasserIn]
Sabina, Saverio [VerfasserIn]
Sabato, Eugenio [VerfasserIn]
Capone, Simonetta [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

142M471B3J
COPD
Carbon Dioxide
Exhaled breath
Journal Article
Noninvasive ventilation
Oxygen
Patient monitoring
S88TT14065
Sensors

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Date Completed 04.12.2020

Date Revised 14.12.2020

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/s20030653

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM305876937