Walking Speed: The Functional Vital Sign

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The ‘fifth vital sign’

Pain is one of the most common symptoms, regardless of the specialty in which a patient is being treated. It should be routinely evaluated and recorded in daily clinical examination. In fact, pain has been promulgated as the ‘fifth vital sign’, in addition to the four traditional vital signs of temperature, pulse, blood pressure, and respiratory rate. As well as improving patient comfort and sa...

Functional Speed Reserve as a Proxy for the Anaerobic Speed Reserve Using the Critical Speed Concept

Background: Although maximal sprint speed (MSS) and the anaerobic speed reserve (ASR) provides valuable information about the speed profile of athletes, these parameters fall short of providing important information about sub-maximal metabolic thresholds. The only field test that can offer an estimate of a sub-maximal metabolic threshold is the 3-minute all-out test for running (3MT) which deli...

Vital Sign Estimation through Doppler

i ABSTRACT Doppler radar can be used to measure respiration and heart rate without contact and through obstacles. In this work, a Doppler radar architecture at 2.4 GHz and a new signal processing algorithm to estimate the respiration and heart rate are presented. The received signal is dominated by the transceiver noise, LO phase noise and clutter which reduces the signal-to-noise ratio of the ...

Sign Technology ? Impedance Cardiography : The Next Vital

2003;123;2028-2033 Chest Mount and Martin L. Dalton Joseph M. Van De Water, Timothy W. Miller, Robert L. Vogel, Bruce E. Sign Technology? Impedance Cardiography: The Next Vital http://chestjournal.org/cgi/content/abstract/123/6/2028 and services can be found online on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information ). ISSN: 0012-3692. http://www.chestjo...