Remote monitoring for children who use home ventilators
Implementation of Remote Patient Monitoring in Pediatric Invasive Home Mechanical Ventilation Using Wireless Devices
This project tries using wireless sensors and a clinician dashboard to track vital signs and symptoms for children on home breathing machines so care teams can make safer ventilator changes from afar.
Quick facts
| Grant type | R03 grant |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Chicago, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11270836 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
As a parent of a child on a home ventilator, this project would have you and your child use simple wireless devices and a symptom log that feed information into a dashboard linked to the hospital record. The team co-designed the dashboard with families so clinicians can view trends over days and weeks instead of relying only on clinic visits. Clinicians would use those remote data to guide changes in ventilator settings or hours of support and to identify problems earlier. The project is a pilot effort at Lurie Children’s to test the remote workflow and its practicality for families.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Ideal candidates are children (infants to about 11 years) who use invasive home mechanical ventilation via tracheostomy, whose families can collect basic vitals and use or accept wireless monitoring at home.
Not a fit: Children who are currently hospitalized, medically unstable, do not use invasive home ventilation, or whose families lack the internet/phone access or capacity to participate are unlikely to benefit from this pilot.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this could help keep children safer at home, reduce emergency events and clinic visits, and lessen caregiver burden by enabling more timely remote ventilator adjustments.
How similar studies have performed: Remote monitoring has helped manage other chronic conditions and adult ventilator populations, but using wireless dashboards specifically for pediatric invasive home ventilation is largely novel and not yet well documented.
Where this research is happening
Chicago, United States
- Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — Chicago, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Foster, Carolyn C. — Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
- Study coordinator: Foster, Carolyn C.
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.