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Design and Development of a Contactless Planar Capacitive Sensor

The measurement of vital signs is a risk-free, inexpensive, and reproducible clinical practice that enables identification of physiological deterioration of patients before an adverse event occurs. However, studies show that manual clinical measurements of respiratory rate are intermittent, biased, and inaccurate. Therefore, a contactless planar capacitive sensor was developed and evaluated against a clinical reference method. Results show that the sensor is accurate (i.e. strong agreement with an average ICC value of 0.99 and an average BSI coefficient of 2.76 < 4 breaths/min clinical threshold) and unbiased (i.e. average mean difference of -0.02 breaths/min). The sensor has promise for respiratory rate monitoring of bedridden patients even during shallow breathing. Future work includes addressing technology limitations, conducting a clinical pilot with a diverse patient population, and exploring potential in sleep quality assessment.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:OTU.1807/42936
Date28 November 2013
CreatorsSivayogan, Thuvatahan
ContributorsCafazzo, Joseph
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Languageen_ca
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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