Evaluation of a wrist-worn photoplethysmography monitor for heart rate variability estimation in patients recovering from laparoscopic colon resection

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    Abstract

    To evaluate the accuracy of heart rate variability (HRV) parameters obtained with a wrist-worn photoplethysmography (PPG) monitor in patients recovering from minimally invasive colon resection to investigate whether PPG has potential in postoperative patient monitoring. 31 patients were monitored for three days or until discharge or reoperation using a wrist-worn PPG monitor (PulseOn, Finland) with a Holter monitor (Faros 360, Bittium Biosignals, Finland) as a reference measurement device. Beat-to-beat intervals (BBI) and HRV information collected by PPG were compared with RR intervals (RRI) and HRV obtained from the ECG reference after removing artefacts and ectopic beats. The beat-to-beat mean error (ME) and mean absolute error (MAE) of good quality heartbeat intervals obtained by wrist PPG were estimated as − 1.34 ms and 10.4 ms respectively. A significant variation in the accuracy of the HRV parameters was found. In the time domain, SDNN (9.11%), TRI (11.4%) and TINN (11.1%) were estimated with low relative MAE, while RMSSD (34.3%), pNN50 (139%) and NN50 (188%) had higher errors. The logarithmic parameters in the frequency domain (VLF Log, LF Log and HF Log) exhibited the lowest relative error, and for non-linear parameters, SD2 (7.5%), DFA α1 (8.25%) and DFA α2 (4.71%) were calculated much more accurately than SD1 (34.3%). The wrist PPG shows some potential for use in a clinical setting. The accuracy of several HRV parameters analyzed post hoc was found sufficient to be used in further studies concerning postoperative recovery of patients undergoing laparoscopic colon resection, although there were large errors in many common HRV parameters such as RMSSD, pNN50 and NN50, rendering them unusable. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04996511, August 9, 2021, retrospectively registered

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)45–53
    Number of pages9
    JournalJournal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
    Volume37
    Issue number1
    Early online date2022
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2023
    Publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

    Keywords

    • Heart rate variability
    • Holter monitor
    • Inter-beat-intervals
    • Photoplethysmography
    • Postoperative recovery
    • PPG
    • RR intervals

    Publication forum classification

    • Publication forum level 1

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Health Informatics
    • Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
    • Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

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