Wireless monitoring for recognition of patient deterioration
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Early recognition of deterioration in high-risk patients using continuous remote wireless monitoring: a clinical observational study with the Check Point Cardio system.
IRAS ID
277938
Contact name
David Brealey
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 8 months, 29 days
Research summary
Un-noticed clinical deterioration causes significant morbidity and mortality, particularly in the high risk surgical patient, those undergoing chemotherapy and the frail medical patient. Current systems, outside of Critical Care/Theatres, rely on regular spot checks (every 4-8hours), any deterioration needs to be noted and appropriately escalated. The Nightingale project has challenged European industry to come up with novel, wearable, wireless continuous monitors, integrated with electronic health records, that could work to detect deterioration both in hospital and at home, escalating findings automatically. 4 of these monitors were recently tested in healthy volunteers. The best 2 were selected to move into this phase of the study to evaluate whether they can work in real patients in hospital and at home. This study aims to examine whether one of these monitors (Check Point Cardio) can reliably detect deterioration compared to standard care monitoring and whether it can detect it quicker. The other device (Emfit) is being examined in a similar but separate submission. This study is purely observational, readings from the monitor will not be acted upon as it is unclear how accurate it is in disease conditions.
REC name
London - Queen Square Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
20/LO/0401
Date of REC Opinion
5 May 2020
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion