Strengths and limitations of early warning scores: a systematic review and narrative synthesis

CL Downey, W Tahir, R Randell, JM Brown… - International journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Early warning scores are widely used to identify deteriorating patients. Whilst
their ability to predict clinical outcomes has been extensively reviewed, there has been no …

The impact of continuous versus intermittent vital signs monitoring in hospitals: a systematic review and narrative synthesis

CL Downey, S Chapman, R Randell, JM Brown… - International journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Continuous vital signs monitoring on general hospital wards may allow earlier
detection of patient deterioration and improve patient outcomes. This systematic review will …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of wearable continuous vital sign monitoring on deterioration detection and clinical outcomes in hospitalised patients: a systematic review and …

C Areia, C Biggs, M Santos, N Thurley, S Gerry… - Critical Care, 2021 - Springer
Background Timely recognition of the deteriorating inpatient remains challenging. Wearable
monitoring systems (WMS) may augment current monitoring practices. However, there are …

Reliability of a wearable wireless patch for continuous remote monitoring of vital signs in patients recovering from major surgery: a clinical validation study from the …

C Downey, S Ng, D Jayne, D Wong - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To validate whether a wearable remote vital signs monitor could accurately
measure heart rate (HR), respiratory rate (RR) and temperature in a postsurgical patient …

[HTML][HTML] Heart rate variability and accelerometry as classification tools for monitoring perceived stress levels—a pilot study on firefighters

M Meina, E Ratajczak, M Sadowska, K Rykaczewski… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Chronic stress is the main cause of health problems in high-risk jobs. Wearable sensors can
become an ecologically valid method of stress level assessment in real-life applications. We …

Patient attitudes towards remote continuous vital signs monitoring on general surgery wards: an interview study

CL Downey, JM Brown, DG Jayne, R Randell - International journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Vital signs monitoring is used to identify deteriorating patients in hospital. The
most common tool for vital signs monitoring is an early warning score, although emerging …

[HTML][HTML] Wearability testing of ambulatory vital sign monitoring devices: prospective observational cohort study

C Areia, L Young, S Vollam, J Ede… - JMIR mHealth and …, 2020 - mhealth.jmir.org
Background: Timely recognition of patient deterioration remains challenging. Ambulatory
monitoring systems (AMSs) may provide support to current monitoring practices; however …

A novel and reliable framework of patient deterioration prediction in intensive care unit based on long short-term memory-recurrent neural network

TI Alshwaheen, YW Hau, N Ass'Ad… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The clinical investigation explored that early recognition and intervention are crucial for
preventing clinical deterioration in patients in Intensive Care units (ICUs). Deterioration of …

Novel use of Google Glass for procedural wireless vital sign monitoring

CA Liebert, MA Zayed, O Aalami, J Tran… - Surgical …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Purpose. This study investigates the feasibility and potential utility of head-mounted displays
for real-time wireless vital sign monitoring during surgical procedures. Methods. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Trial of remote continuous versus intermittent NEWS monitoring after major surgery (TRaCINg): a feasibility randomised controlled trial

CL Downey, J Croft, G Ainsworth, H Buckley… - Pilot and Feasibility …, 2020 - Springer
Background Despite medical advances, major surgery remains high risk with up to 44% of
patients experiencing postoperative complications. Early recognition of postoperative …