Abstract
There is still a demand for secure home-monitoring equipment for infants. The constructors of modern monitors should especially aim at reducing the rate of false alarms. The indication for home monitoring of a child must be as critically examined as the question of which type of device should be used. Two hundred and thirty-six randomly selected parents were offered the free use of a standard device to monitor their infants at home. Periods of application and general compliance were then assessed for 1 year by means of a longitudinal study. Furthermore, on 32 term-eutrophic infants, frequency of alarms were measured in their first 3 months of life (home monitoring study). In a second clinical trial under sleep laboratory conditions on 59 infants, the possibility of reducing the rate of false alams by using logistic signal linding was examined with a newly developed monitor with integrated software (False Alarm Study). When monitoring babies using commercially available devices, there is a high rate of flase alarms. This fact has a negative influence on the acceptance and therefore on the use of these monitors. A reduction of false alarms is obtained with the new type of monitoring equipment. Further development of signal interconnection methods should improve the quality of monitoring devices. Significance can be improved by retrospectively analyzing the recorded alarms and by replacing even recording with continuous recording thanks to modern equipment with high memory capacity.
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