Abstract
Background: COVID-19 causes a significant number of deaths in the world, and 10% of the infected individuals must be hospitalized. After the period of hospitalization, beyond the already known consequences, the patients suffer later complications of COVID-19, which are not yet totally clear. Thereafter, patients’ follow-up monitoring provides a better understanding of COVID-19 systemic consequences.
Aim: To analyze the ventilatory and cardiac responses and the level of activity during activities of daily living (ADL) in post-hospitalization patients.
Methods: Eight men were included, 4 with post-COVID-19 (48±12.4 years; 79.4±3.3 kg; 167±7.7 cm) and 4 healthy (49±12.2 years; 78.2±10 kg; 176±9.3 cm). Healthy subjects were assessed before the pandemic started. All of them used the smart t-shirt (®Hexoskin) with embedded sensors (Respiratory, Activity, and ECG) during (6.4±1.2 days, 8.3±1.4 hours/day) in their free ADL. Breath rate (BR), minute ventilation (Ve), tidal volume (Tv), heart rate (HR), hip acceleration (Acc), and hip cadence (Cad) were split by active (Acc>0.05) and inactive period (Acc<0.05g).
Results: Patients with COVID-19 presented higher mean values of BR and HR and lower values of Ve, Tv, Acc, and Cad, both periods (Fig1).
Conclusion: The wearables could be a global assessment tool to monitoring the consequences of COVID-19 during ADL.
Data wearables during ADL.
FAPESP: 2018/22818-9;2016/22215-7.
Footnotes
Cite this article as: European Respiratory Journal 2021; 58: Suppl. 65, PA2271.
This abstract was presented at the 2021 ERS International Congress, in session “Prediction of exacerbations in patients with COPD”.
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