| Title: | A Low-Cost Breath Analyzer Module in Domiciliary Non-Invasive Mechanical Ventilation for Remote COPD Patient Monitoring |
| Author(s): | Radogna AV; Siciliano PA; Sabina S; Sabato E; Capone S; |
| Address: | "Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems, National Research Council (CNR-IMM), Campus Ecotekne, Str. Prov. Lecce-Monteroni km 1.2, 73100 Lecce, Italy. Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council (CNR-IFC), Campus Ecotekne, Str. Prov. Lecce-Monteroni km 1.2, 73100 Lecce, Italy. 'A. Perrino' Hospital, Pulmonology Ward, 72100 Brindisi, Italy. Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies, (CNR-IRPPS), 72100 Brindisi, Italy" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1424-8220 (Electronic) 1424-8220 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "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 (CO(2)/O(2) 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 CO(2)/O(2) 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" |
| Keywords: | "Breath Tests/*methods Carbon Dioxide/analysis Cloud Computing Equipment Design Humans Monitoring, Physiologic/economics/*instrumentation/*methods Oxygen/analysis Proof of Concept Study Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/*therapy Copd exhaled breath no;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineRadogna, Antonio Vincenzo Siciliano, Pietro Aleardo Sabina, Saverio Sabato, Eugenio Capone, Simonetta eng Switzerland 2020/01/30 Sensors (Basel). 2020 Jan 24; 20(3):653. doi: 10.3390/s20030653" |
