{"title":"Continuous vital sign monitoring with Biobeat<sup>®</sup> wearable devices for post-ambulatory surgery patients: a pilot feasibility study.","authors":"Julien Belliveau, Léo Pilote, Elliot Grange, Cédrick Zaouter, Maxim Roy, Florian Robin","doi":"10.1007/s10877-025-01276-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10877-025-01276-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Improvement in anesthesia and surgical practices has enabled more patients, including those undergoing higher-risk surgeries, to be treated in outpatient settings. This shift creates a need for reliable postoperative monitoring at home. Wearable devices like the Biobeat<sup>®</sup> offer continuous, real-time monitoring of vital signs have remained largely untested for home use in this context.A prospective, single-center observational study was conducted at the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) from February to August 2023. Fifty eligible patients underwent continuous monitoring with the Biobeat<sup>®</sup> device for five days post-surgery, with data transmitted to CHUM's telehealth service. Feasibility was assessed by the percentage of patients without data loss during consecutive 2-hour intervals.Of the 50 patients enrolled, 49 completed the study, but all experienced some level of data loss. While 39.6% of patients maintained connectivity without complete data loss for 6-8-hour intervals, challenges included device discomfort, Bluetooth disconnection, and connectivity issues. Thirteen patients removed the device early due to discomfort or technical issues. Of the 3 patients who experienced post-operative complications, no data was available within 24 h prior to the episodes. Continuous vital signs monitoring is feasible for high-risk outpatient surgery patients; however, significant improvements are required in device reliability and data accessibility. Further studies are needed to refine the technology and develop reliable protocols for postoperative monitoring in the home setting.</p>","PeriodicalId":15513,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143515820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandre Descamps, Matthias Jacquet-Lagrèze, Thomas Aussal, Jean-Luc Fellahi, Martin Ruste
{"title":"DiCART<sup>TM</sup> device to measure capillary refill time: a validation study in patients with acute circulatory failure.","authors":"Alexandre Descamps, Matthias Jacquet-Lagrèze, Thomas Aussal, Jean-Luc Fellahi, Martin Ruste","doi":"10.1007/s10877-025-01271-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10877-025-01271-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Capillary Refill Time (CRT) is a valuable metric to assess cutaneous perfusion. Its prognostic value in patients with acute circulatory failure has been reported as improved when the measurement is standardized. The DiCART™ device is a fully automated CRT measurement tool requiring validation. We conducted a comparative interventional single-center study including 25 patients with acute circulatory failure, to evaluate the agreement between CRT measured by an automated measurement device (CRT<sub>DiCART</sub>) and CRT measured clinically (CRT<sub>CLIN</sub>). CRT was measured on the fingertip, chest, and knee. Three measurements were performed at each location to obtain an average for each site. The measurements were conducted both clinically and using the DiCART™ device by two different operators, each blinded to the results. Agreement was determined using intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and Bland and Altman analysis. The ICC between CRT<sub>CLIN</sub> and CRT<sub>DiCART</sub> was 0.46 (95% Confidence Interval (CI) 0.32, 0.59) across all measurement sites; the mean bias was 0.23s (95% CI -0.17, 0.64), with upper Limit of Agreement (LoA) 2.77s (95% CI 2.44, 3.20) and lower LoA - 2.30s (-2.73, -1.97). Intra observer ICC was 0.85 (95% CI 0.74, 0.91) for CRT<sub>CLIN</sub> and 0.43 (95% CI 0.15, 0.64) for CRT<sub>DICART</sub>. Inter observer ICC was 0.86 (95% CI 0.76, 0.92) for CRT<sub>CLIN</sub> and was 0.41 (95% CI 0.14, 0,63) for CRT<sub>DICART</sub>. The DiCART™ device showed poor agreement with clinical CRT in patients with acute circulatory failure, which does not support its use in routine practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":15513,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143515824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comment on \"Effect of postoperative peripheral nerve blocks on the analgesia nociception index under propofol anesthesia: an observational study.\"","authors":"Nobuhiro Tanaka, Mitsuru Ida, Masahiko Kawaguchi","doi":"10.1007/s10877-025-01268-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10877-025-01268-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Kumagai et al. provided valuable insights into the effects of postoperative peripheral nerve blocks (PNB) on the high-frequency variability index (HFVI), a surrogate for nociception monitoring. However, the analysis excluded the impact of different brachial plexus block techniques, particularly the interscalene brachial plexus block (ISB), and role of laterality in HFVI variability. ISB produces a stellate ganglion block-like effect through local anesthetic diffusion, influencing autonomic function and heart rate variability, independent of nociceptive modulation. Provided that this study included various brachial plexus block approaches, stratifying HFVI changes according to technique and laterality could enhance their clinical relevance. Right-sided ISB may have a more pronounced autonomic effect than left-sided ISB. Further research is needed to clarify these effects and optimize the interpretation of HFVI during perioperative monitoring.</p>","PeriodicalId":15513,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143441099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moritz Flick, Christina Vokuhl, Alina Bergholz, Kristina Boutchkova, Julia Y Nicklas, Bernd Saugel
{"title":"Personalized intraoperative arterial pressure management and mitochondrial oxygen tension in patients having major non-cardiac surgery: a pilot substudy of the IMPROVE trial.","authors":"Moritz Flick, Christina Vokuhl, Alina Bergholz, Kristina Boutchkova, Julia Y Nicklas, Bernd Saugel","doi":"10.1007/s10877-024-01260-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10877-024-01260-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The \"Cellular Oxygen METabolism\" (COMET) system (Photonics Healthcare, Utrecht, The Netherlands) non-invasively measures mitochondrial oxygen tension (mitoPO<sub>2</sub>) in the skin. The effects of general anesthesia and major non-cardiac surgery on mitoPO<sub>2</sub> remain unknown. In this pre-planned pilot substudy of the \"Intraoperative blood pressure Management based on the individual blood PRessure profile: impact on postOperatiVE organ function\" (IMPROVE) trial, we measured mitoPO<sub>2</sub> from induction of general anesthesia until the end of surgery in 19 major non-cardiac surgery patients (10 assigned to personalized and 9 to routine intraoperative arterial pressure management). In the overall cohort, the median (25th to 75th percentile) preoperative awake mitoPO<sub>2</sub> was 63 (53 to 82) mmHg and mitoPO<sub>2</sub> after induction of general anesthesia was 42 (35 to 59) mmHg. The intraoperative average mitoPO<sub>2</sub> was 39 (30 to 50) mmHg. Thirteen patients (68%) had intraoperative mitoPO<sub>2</sub> values below 20 mmHg and the median percentage of surgical time with mitoPO<sub>2</sub> < 20 mmHg was 17 (0 to 31)%. MitoPO<sub>2</sub> was weakly correlated with mean arterial pressure (repeated measures correlation (r<sub>rm</sub>(n); r<sub>rm</sub>(984) = 0.26, 95% confidence interval 0.20 to 0.32; P < 0.001), but not meaningfully with heart rate (r<sub>rm</sub>(984) = -0.05, 95% confidence interval -0.11 to 0.01; P = 0.117). There was no important difference in intraoperative average mitoPO<sub>2</sub> between patients assigned to personalized or to routine intraoperative arterial pressure management (P = 0.653). MitoPO<sub>2</sub> under general anesthesia was about a quarter lower than preoperative awake mitoPO<sub>2</sub>, substantially fluctuated during major non-cardiac surgery, and transiently decreased below 20 mmHg in about two-thirds of the patients. Personalized - compared to routine - intraoperative arterial pressure management did not increase intraoperative mitoPO<sub>2</sub>. Whether intraoperative decreases in mitoPO<sub>2</sub> are clinically meaningful warrants further investigation.</p>","PeriodicalId":15513,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143370833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characterizing drivers of change in intraoperative cerebral saturation using supervised machine learning.","authors":"Philip J Pries, W Alan C Mutch, Duane J Funk","doi":"10.1007/s10877-025-01265-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10877-025-01265-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Regional cerebral oxygen saturation (rSO<sub>2</sub>) is used to monitor cerebral perfusion with emerging evidence that optimization of rSO<sub>2</sub> may improve neurological and non-neurological outcomes. To manipulate rSO<sub>2</sub> an understanding of the variables that drive its behavior is necessary, and this can be accomplished using supervised machine learning. This study aimed to establish a hierarchy by which various hemodynamic and ventilatory variables contribute to intraoperative changes in rSO<sub>2</sub>. A post-hoc analysis 146 patients undergoing high risk surgery. rSO<sub>2</sub> was partitioned into segments with a change of at least 3% points over 5 min. Features from hemodynamic and ventilatory variables were used to train a machine learning classification algorithm (XGBoost) for prediction of association with either up or down-sloping rSO<sub>2</sub>. The classifier was optimized and validated using five-fold cross validation. Feature importance was quantified based on information gain and permutation feature importance. The optimized classifier demonstrated a mean accuracy of 77.1% (SD 8.0%) and a mean area-under-ROC-curve of 0.86 (SD 0.06). The most important features based on information gain were the slope of the associated ETCO<sub>2</sub> signal, the slope of the SPO<sub>2</sub> signal, and the mean of the MAP signal. CO<sub>2</sub> is a significant mediator of changes in rSO<sub>2</sub> in an intraoperative setting, through its established effects on cerebral blood flow. This study furthers our overall understanding of the complex physiologic process that governs cerebral oxygenation by quantifying the hierarchy by which rSO<sub>2</sub> is affected. Clinical Trial Number NCT01838733 (ClinicalTrials.gov).</p>","PeriodicalId":15513,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143370832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cyrus Motamed, Bernard Trillat, Marc Fischler, Morgan le Guen, Jean Louis Bourgain
{"title":"Reversal of neuromuscular block with neostigmine and sugammadex: a retrospective cohort study in two centers using different types of neuromuscular monitoring.","authors":"Cyrus Motamed, Bernard Trillat, Marc Fischler, Morgan le Guen, Jean Louis Bourgain","doi":"10.1007/s10877-024-01192-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10877-024-01192-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This bicentric retrospective cohort study evaluates reversal of muscle relaxation in real life achieved either by neostigmine or sugammadex in two hospitals using different types of neuromuscular monitoring (acceleromyography and kinemyography). The research question concerns compliance with recommendations. Patients who underwent an abdominal surgery under general anesthesia in the period from January 2017 through December 2020 with a neuromuscular block with rocuronium were included in the study. Data were extracted from the Centricity anesthesia information management system. In total, 2242 patients were assessed: 459 in center 1 (61 having received neostigmine and 398 sugammadex) and 1783 in center 2 (531 and 1252, respectively). Patients' characteristics differed between centers, with more high-risk patients in center 1. The mean train-of-four (TOF) ratio after supramaximal current determination (supramaximal threshold) was higher in center 1 (p < 0.001). Most patients received neostigmine while the TOF ratio was < 40% (68.6% in center 1 and 62.4% in center 2), while extubation was performed while the TOF ratio was > 90% in 61.0% in center 1 and in 32.1% in center 2 (p < 0.001). Patients received sugammadex irrespective of the number of responses to TOF before reversal, and extubation was performed while the TOF ratio was > 90% in 85.0% in center 1 and in 53.6% in center 2 (p < 0.001). No side effect was encountered. Despite guidelines for the TOF ratio before extubation, recommendations were not adequately respected and more vigilance is mandatory. The TOF test before use gave values that were 100% far apart with an underestimation with acceleromyography and an overestimation using kinemyography.</p>","PeriodicalId":15513,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing","volume":" ","pages":"141-148"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141731249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ASNM intraoperative SSEP position statement.","authors":"David Allison","doi":"10.1007/s10877-024-01213-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10877-024-01213-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15513,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing","volume":" ","pages":"257-258"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142288324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Antonio Messina, Marta Calatroni, Gianluca Castellani, Silvia De Rosa, Marlies Ostermann, Maurizio Cecconi
{"title":"Understanding fluid dynamics and renal perfusion in acute kidney injury management.","authors":"Antonio Messina, Marta Calatroni, Gianluca Castellani, Silvia De Rosa, Marlies Ostermann, Maurizio Cecconi","doi":"10.1007/s10877-024-01209-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10877-024-01209-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with an increased risk of morbidity, mortality, and healthcare expenditure, posing a major challenge in clinical practice, and affecting about 50% of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), particularly the elderly and those with pre-existing chronic comorbidities. In health, intra-renal blood flow is maintained and auto-regulated within a wide range of renal perfusion pressures (60-100 mmHg), mediated predominantly through changes in pre-glomerular vascular tone of the afferent arteriole in response to changes of the intratubular NaCl concentration, i.e. tubuloglomerular feedback. Several neurohormonal processes contribute to regulation of the renal microcirculation, including the sympathetic nervous system, vasodilators such as nitric oxide and prostaglandin E2, and vasoconstrictors such as endothelin, angiotensin II and adenosine. The most common risk factors for AKI include volume depletion, haemodynamic instability, inflammation, nephrotoxic exposure and mitochondrial dysfunction. Fluid management is an essential component of AKI prevention and management. While traditional approaches emphasize fluid resuscitation to ensure renal perfusion, recent evidence urges caution against excessive fluid administration, given AKI patients' susceptibility to volume overload. This review examines the main characteristics of AKI in ICU patients and provides guidance on fluid management, use of biomarkers, and pharmacological strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":15513,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing","volume":" ","pages":"73-83"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142093219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practical prognostic tools to predict the risk of postoperative delirium in older patients undergoing cardiac surgery: visual and dynamic nomograms.","authors":"Chernor Sulaiman Bah, Bongani Mbambara, Xianhai Xie, Junlin Li, Asha Khatib Iddi, Chen Chen, Hui Jiang, Yue Feng, Yi Zhong, Xinlong Zhang, Huaming Xia, Libo Yan, Yanna Si, Juan Zhang, Jianjun Zou","doi":"10.1007/s10877-024-01219-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10877-024-01219-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Postoperative Delirium (POD) has an incidence of up to 65% in older patients undergoing cardiac surgery. We aimed to develop two dynamic nomograms to predict the risk of POD in older patients undergoing cardiac surgery.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This was a single-center retrospective cohort study, which included 531 older patients who underwent cardiac surgery from July 2021 to June 2022 at Nanjing First Hospital, China. Univariable and multivariable logistic regression were used to identify the significant predictors used when constructing the models. We evaluated the performances and accuracy, validated, and estimated the clinical utility and net benefit of the models using the receiver operating characteristic (ROC), the 10-fold cross-validation, and decision curve analysis (DCA).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 30% of the patients developed POD, the significant predictors in the preoperative model were ASA ( p < 0.001 OR = 3.220), cerebrovascular disease (p < 0.001 OR = 2.326), Alb (p < 0.037 OR = 0.946), and URE (p < 0.001 OR = 1.137), while for the postoperative model they were ASA (p = 0.044, OR = 1.737), preoperative MMSE score (p = 0.005, OR = 0.782), URE (p = 0.017 OR = 1.092), CPB duration (p < 0.001 OR = 1.010) and APACHE II (p < 0.001, OR = 1.353). The preoperative and postoperative models achieved satisfactory predictive performances, with AUC values of 0.731 and 0.799, respectively. The web calculators can be accessed at https://xxh152.shinyapps.io/Pre-POD/ and https://xxh152.shinyapps.io/Post-POD/ .</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>We established two nomogram models based on the preoperative and postoperative time points to predict POD risk and guide the flexible implementation of possible interventions at different time points.</p>","PeriodicalId":15513,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing","volume":" ","pages":"11-24"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142288326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ravi Pal, Joshua Le, Akos Rudas, Jeffrey N Chiang, Tiffany Williams, Brenton Alexander, Alexandre Joosten, Maxime Cannesson
{"title":"A review of machine learning methods for non-invasive blood pressure estimation.","authors":"Ravi Pal, Joshua Le, Akos Rudas, Jeffrey N Chiang, Tiffany Williams, Brenton Alexander, Alexandre Joosten, Maxime Cannesson","doi":"10.1007/s10877-024-01221-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10877-024-01221-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Blood pressure is a very important clinical measurement, offering valuable insights into the hemodynamic status of patients. Regular monitoring is crucial for early detection, prevention, and treatment of conditions like hypotension and hypertension, both of which increasing morbidity for a wide variety of reasons. This monitoring can be done either invasively or non-invasively and intermittently vs. continuously. An invasive method is considered the gold standard and provides continuous measurement, but it carries higher risks of complications such as infection, bleeding, and thrombosis. Non-invasive techniques, in contrast, reduce these risks and can provide intermittent or continuous blood pressure readings. This review explores modern machine learning-based non-invasive methods for blood pressure estimation, discussing their advantages, limitations, and clinical relevance.</p>","PeriodicalId":15513,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing","volume":" ","pages":"95-106"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142288322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}