
Decentralized monitoring of COVID-19 patients: M³Infekt project launched
Dresden/Erfurt: M³Infekt, a Fraunhofer cluster project, aims to develop a monitoring system that enables early intervention in the event that a patient’s condition suddenly starts to deteriorate. It will be a modular, multimodal, and mobile system, and will also be suitable for use in the treatment of COVID-19 patients. By facilitating the required intervention at an early stage, the system helps to lessen the effects of a disease, shorten the duration of therapy and make flexible use of intensive care wards.
Quick and reliable diagnosis of disease progression
The coronavirus pandemic poses a challenge for medical diagnostics. Alongside serious cases, the SARS-CoV2 virus also causes mild symptoms, but these can very quickly worsen. Currently, however, continuous patient monitoring is available only on intensive care wards. When someone’s health suddenly deteriorates, there is often some delay to this being recognized, meaning the patient is taken to hospital too late. This is precisely where the M3Infekt cluster project comes in. Using various technologies, the mobile system acquires, analyzes and fuses relevant biosignals, which enables a valid diagnosis to be made of the patient’s condition and the progression of the disease.
The idea is to provide a long-term solution for decentralized monitoring of patients on normal wards and in non-hospital environments using multimodal parameters of the cardiovascular system (including heart rate, ECG, oxygen saturation, blood flow) and respiratory parameters (including respiratory rate/volume, breath analysis). Machine learning methods serve as the basis for evaluating these parameters, facilitating diagno-sis and enabling integration of the system into different deployment and application scenarios, regardless of location.
Affordable healthcare benefits patients and health services
The planned system has a modular and mobile structure with standardized, open inter-faces. These enable easy integration into other platforms and make the system suitable for use with various diseases, including influenza, pneumonia and sepsis. It will enable continuous monitoring, previously used only for patients in intensive care, to be rolled out to non-hospital scenarios, such as short- and long-term care, outpatient treatment or home settings. This way, patients can remain in a favorable environment and move to a hospital only if their condition suddenly deteriorates.
Fraunhofer IIS is the project lead in the M3Infekt consortium, which comprises ten Fraunhofer Institutes and four medical partners. Together, they form an interdisciplinary group built on complementary areas of expertise.
As part of the M³Infekt project, Fraunhofer IPMS works on the spirometric breath analysis using a CMUT MEMS-based ultrasound system. This enables the monitoring of the airflow of the exhaled breath and thus breathing of the patient in general. Additionally, Fraunhofer IPMS participates via the Fraunhofer Project Hub MEOS, which on one hand coordinates all clinical partners, works on the regulatory issues for measurements at patients and cares about system integration aspects. On the other hand, it develops a system for chemical breath analysis based on ion mobility spectroscopy.
The M3Infekt project is funded as part of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft’s internal programs.
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