Physiological Monitoring in Firefighter Ensembles: Wearable Plethysmographic Sensor Vest Versus Standard Equipment

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• Personal Author:
  Coca, Aitor ; Landsittel DP ; Palmiero A ; Powell JB ; Roberge RJ ; Williams WJ
• Description:
  We evaluated the accuracy of a wearable sensor vest for real-time monitoring of physiological responses to treadmill exercise. Ten subjects in standard firefighter ensembles, treadmill exercising at 50% VO2 max, had heart rate (HR), respiratory rate (RR), skin temperature (Tsk), oxygen saturation (SaO2), tidal volume (VT), and minute ventilation (E) recorded concurrently by a wearable plethysmographic sensor vest and standard laboratory physiological monitoring equipment for comparison. A high degree of correlation was noted for most of the measured variables [HR (r = 0.99), RR (r = 0.98), Tsk (r = 0.98), E (r = 0.88), and SaO2 (r = 0.79)]. VT (r = 0.60) had a moderate correlation, although a paired differences analysis showed a mean paired difference of -0.03 L. This mean paired difference represents a 1.92% variation for VT. Data from the wearable sensor vest is comparable to data captured from standard laboratory physiological monitoring equipment on subjects wearing standard firefighter ensembles while exercising at a moderate work rate. This study demonstrates the accuracy of the wearable sensor technology for these physiological parameters under these conditions and suggests that it could be useful for actual field studies of firefighters in traditional firefighting gear. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Firefighters Laboratories Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Firefighter Ensembles Biological-monitoring Biomedical-engineering Fire-fighters Laboratory-testing Occupational-health Physiological-measurements Physiological Monitoring Plethysmographic Sensor Vest Statistical-analysis Surveillance-programs Wearable Work-analysis Work-environment Work-performance

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• ISSN:
  1545-9624
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  NPPTL - National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  109-114
• Volume:
  7
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20036393
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Hyg 2010 Feb; 7(2):109-114
• Contact Point Address:
  Aitor Coca, National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory, P.O. Box 18070, 626 Cochrans Mill Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15236
• Email:
  esq6@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:398dda38feaa22aeb00ac31085ded27a1bb4c36d826dd8d87b2089d32d6c19e09ca8188f1caaf6ac90f5c5ef5d01c8fc3a163dae5c7b976c34d20a23c96a7be6
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