Paediatric Respiratory Monitoring
A large number of conditions affecting the respiratory system manifest at an early age. Whether due to chronic lung, cardiac or neurological diseases, or acute, self-limiting conditions such as infection, respiratory symptoms have a profound impact on children.
Current technologies for capturing respiratory data from children are unsuitable. Relying on tight harnesses that go around the chest and abdomen to measure chest expansion, and facemasks to measure airflow, they are unpleasant for many children and, at best, often result in only short periods of data capture.
Pneumonia is the 2nd most common cause of death in children under 5 killing more than 800,000 globally every year
Respiratory conditions are the most frequent cause of hospital admission in all ages of children
Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children with 10-15% of children globally having experience asthma symptoms in the last year
Respiratory illness has a devastating impact on children’s daily lives, affecting education, physical fitness and social interactions.
Aiming to address this enormous unmet need, PneumoWave is designing technology that will allow continuous, long-term, real-time capture and analysis of respiratory data in children. Working with paediatric respiratory specialists, the technology being developed is intended to be low-cost and highly scalable, making it suitable for a range of use cases both in developed and low-income countries.
PneumoWave’s technology is currently undergoing development and evaluation in clinical trials. Performance characteristics have yet to be established.