Textile-based Wearable to Monitor Heart Activity in Paediatric Population: A Pilot Study

BackgroundCardiac monitoring for children with heart disease still employs common clinical techniques that require visits to hospital either in an ambulatory or inpatient setting. Frequent cardiac monitoring, such as rate can limit children’s physical activity and quality of life. The main objective this study is evaluate the performance a textile-based device (SKIIN) measuring (HR) different tasks: lying down, sitting, standing, exercising, cooling down.MethodsTwenty participants including healthy were included study. difference between HRs recorded by SKIIN was compared reference electrocardiogram collection normalized root mean squared error. Participants completed questionnaire on their experience wearing textile additional parental feedback collected.ResultsParticipants had median age 14 years (range: 10-17 years), body mass index 23.1 ± 3.8 kg/m2 surface area 1.70 0.25 m2. HR system significantly changes tasks (P < 0.001), while not from each other > 0.05). error 3.8% 3.0% 3.6% 3.7% groups, respectively. All found non-irritating easy wear.ConclusionsThis provides proof concept be robustly conveniently monitored smart textiles, similar accuracy standard-of-care devices.