Video Plethysmography for Contactless Measurement of Respiratory Rate in Surgical Patients

Overview

Journal J Clin Monit Comput

Publisher Springer

Specialties Anesthesiology
General Medicine
Medical Informatics

Date 2023 Sep 12

PMID 37698697

Authors

Khashayar Poorzargar

Chi Pham

Darshan Panesar

Sheila Riazi

Kang Lee

Matteo Parotto

Frances Chung

Affiliations

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Abstract

The accurate recording of respiratory rate (RR) without contact is important for patient care. The current methods for RR measurement such as capnography, pneumography, and plethysmography require patient contact, are cumbersome, or not accurate for widespread clinical use. Video Plethysmography (VPPG) is a novel automated technology that measures RR using a facial video without contact. The objective of our study was to determine whether VPPG can feasibly and accurately measure RR without contact in surgical patients at a clinical setting. After research ethics approval, 216 patients undergoing ambulatory surgery consented to the study. Patients had a 1.5 min video of their faces taken via an iPad preoperatively, which was analyzed using VPPG to obtain RR information. The RR prediction by VPPG was compared to 60-s manual counting of breathing by research assistants. We found that VPPG predicted RR with 88.8% accuracy and a bias of 1.40 ± 1.96 breaths per minute. A significant and high correlation (0.87) was observed between VPPG-predicted and manually recorded RR. These results did not change with the ethnicity of patients. The success rate of the VPPG technology was 99.1%. Contactless RR monitoring of surgical patients at a hospital setting using VPPG is accurate and feasible, making this technology an attractive alternative to the current approaches to RR monitoring. Future developments should focus on improving reliability of the technology.

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