Biobeat Digital Home Monitoring Feasibility

London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Home Monitoring; Thoracic Surgery

Treatments: Other: Digital Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06417996

Digital Home Monitoring

Details and patient eligibility

About

To assess the feasibility of evaluating postoperative home monitoring with Biobeat digital monitoring. The investigators hypothesize that the Biobeat digital home monitoring platform will lead to a decrease in unplanned visits to the ED (Emergency Department). In addition, patients' quality of life is postulated to be improved compared to patients receiving the current standard of care without home monitoring.

Full description

This trial will be a single centre, parallel arm, randomized controlled feasibility trial. The investigators will evaluate postoperative home monitoring with the Biobeat digital monitoring and two-way communication through the digital portal for 4 weeks post-operatively to the standard of care (no digital monitoring) in thoracic surgery patients undergoing elective thoracic surgical procedures. The investigators will assess whether conducting a larger randomized trial of digital home monitoring vs. standard of care is feasible in terms of recruitment, data collection and logistics.

Enrollment: 48 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient willing to provide informed consent
• Wi-fi or cellular connectivity at the patient's home
• Patient undergoing elective lung cancer surgery
• Patient familiar/comfortable with the use of technology such as online banking.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who are not comfortable with the use of technology.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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48 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will not be monitored with continuity of care.

Digital Group

Experimental group

Description:

At the time of hospital discharge, the control group will be discharged without receipt of home monitoring, and the intervention group will receive a home monitoring kit with (NIBP (non-invasive blood pressure) and SPO2 (pulse oximetry) with instructions on how to use these devices. Patients in the intervention groups will receive digital communication for four weeks and have their NIBP, HR (heart rate), SPO2 and pain scores evaluated twice a day for two weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Digital Group