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Detecting Post-surgical Respiratory Compromise and Prompting Patients to Self-rescue: An Early Feasibility Study
Sponsor: University of Utah
Summary
This study will explore the feasibility of an idea to use standard, FDA-approved patient monitors to detect ventilatory depression and then play a recorded nurse's voice to prompt patients by name to breathe. The voice prompt will occur in addition to when the traditional alarms are sounded by the monitors. The study device consists of commercially available physiologic monitors, a speaker, and a laptop computer. The physiologic monitors include a pulse oximeter with a motion sensor, capnometer, and nasal airway pressure sensor (built into a nasal cannula). Nasal pressure is a commonly used clinical monitor for sleep apnea detection during polysomnography testing in sleep labs.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
40
Start Date
2017-10-01
Completion Date
2026-06-30
Last Updated
2025-03-05
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
NM3, Phillips Medical, Wallingford CT: verbal prompts to breathe with an optional shoulder shake
The device used is the NM3 by Phillips Medical, Wallingford CT. The prompting for breaths will include a recorded voice played at 100 decibels played by a speaker placed within 4 feet of the patient's head. If successful breath response is monitored by the patient monitors but no additional subsequent breaths occur within 20 seconds, the verbal prompt will be repeated for the patient to breathe. If the verbal prompting does not result in a breath detected by the patient monitors, the verbal prompt will be repeated within 20 seconds, optionally accompanied by a shoulder shake from the shoulder massager.
Locations (1)
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States