Jan 27, 2017
Smart baby-trackers mostly unnecessary, say US doctors
The doctors spoke out after seeing babies being brought to A&E after smart-monitor false alarms. "There are few classes of babies for whom it would be appropriate to go home with a medical monitor - and a physician would prescribe that monitor." "By continuously monitoring healthy infants, parents will inevitably experience some alarms for conditions that are not life-threatening, including false-positive alarms... and true-positive alarms for events that are not clinically important," they said. "Healthy infants have occasional oxygen de-saturations to less than 80% without consequence, and these monitors could increase the risk of over-diagnosis and potential harm if these innocuous events generate alarms." "The problem is that in the age of the 'worried well' such products can end up leading to false alarms that can alarm parents and place even more pressure on already stretched health services."
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