What's the Role of Wearables in Breath Monitoring?

MedTech Outlook | Thursday, July 23, 2020

The wearable technology has been rapidly gaining popularity and is now a part of respiratory health too.

FREMONT, CA: Medical technologists are in a constant venture to explore and identify a worthy solution that serves as a stable and smart end to end solution in the long run. Wearable technology is just the right one that aids medical care delivery professionals in providing adequate and trusted care to patients suffering from respiratory illness. Monitoring of health condition demand accuracy, and especially when remote checkups are in the play, precision becomes the only consideration. Keeping this in mind, technologists in the wearable industry have come up with the idea of employing wearables to check, keep track of, and record breathing parameters of the patient.

Catering to the needs of the aged, children, and others with special factors to consider, wearable respiratory devices are increasingly gaining the highest level of acceptance among the community. The reason for this is that the latest advancements in the field of wearable and sensor technology have made it comfortable for users to wear the devices on the body for a long period of time without having to complain about any difficulty caused by the device.

Wearable respiratory devices have a soft wall around them and are highly compatible with the human body. They effectively measure electrocardiogram (ECG), pulse, rate of respiration, and the rate of heartbeat. Information about these body vitals, once recorded by the wearable, is sent to the doctors and other health monitors. By carefully accessing and analyzing these pieces of data, doctors take a call on further treatment of the patient. One of the main advantages of the respiratory wearables is that they are light, smooth, user-friendly, flexible, and adapt themselves with the voluntary and the involuntary activities performed by the body. These next-generation sensors are sure to become a part of medical care in the future.