Use heart and respiration rate to determine if patient needs a check-in.
- Utilize heart and respiration rates of patients in a nursing home facility to determine if they need a staff member to check-in.
- Check-ins will be classified by emergency, non-emergency, and doctor's visit.
- Please see further analysis here: Analysis, Nursing Home Patients
- Normal Heart Rate for Elderly Adults
- Raised respiratory rate in elderly patients: a valuable physical sign
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Adults Over 80: Outcome and the Perception of Appropriateness by Clinicians
- Patients who exhibit abnormal heart rate or respiratory rate, but not both simultaneously, can be monitored with less intensity and true emergency situations can be identified more accurately.
- Measurements of heart and respiratory rate, when measured together allow us to address potential emergency situations, including resuscitation.
* Measurements of respiratory rate over a day allow us to recommend doctor visits for patients with increased likelihood of having or developing an infection. * Common infections for nursing home patients include lower respiratory and urinary tract infections. * Urinary tract infections typically cause lower respiratory rates and lower respiratory infections typically cause higher respiratory rates. * See this source for more information: [Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Adults Over 80: Outcome and the Perception of Appropriateness by Clinicians](https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jgs.16270)
- Determine if these indicators can tell us when a person is awake at night, then recommend a check-in if they aren't sleeping for more than 30 minutes between 10 pm and 5 am.
- Need to know why there are periods of many minutes with the same measurement for both heart and respiratory rate at concerning levels.
- Include plots with red, yellow, and orange indicator bars.