Monitoring oxygen saturation remotely in people with chronic respiratory disease during exercise.

People with chronic respiratory conditions can achieve improvements in exercise capacity, breathlessness and quality of life through participation in exercise training in the form of pulmonary rehabilitation. In conjunction with supervised training people with chronic respiratory disease are encouraged to exercise independently, away from the supervision of healthcare professionals. However, often patients lack confidence for exercising unsupervised. The ability to remotely monitor physiological parameters (such as peripheral oxygen level (SpO2) and heart rate (HR)) during exercise for these individuals may help to improve confidence to exercise. Additionally, the ability to monitor physiological symptoms remotely may create alternative exercise training options for people with chronic respiratory conditions who are otherwise unable to take part in centre-based pulmonary rehabilitation programs. The aim of this project is to establish agreement in pulse oximetry and HR values between measures taken remotely via an app connected to a wireless fingertip pulse oximeter (Nonin 3230 Bluetooth Smart Pulse Oximeter, Nonin Medical Inc., Plymouth, Minnesota, USA) and transmitted via Bluetooth to the iOximeter app for remote monitoring and those measures recorded using a standard oxygen saturation monitor (Nonin PalmSAT® 2500; Nonin Medical Inc., Plymouth, Minnesota, USA), during exercise in people with chronic respiratory diseases. This study will make use of a prospectively collected data set, using quantitative methodology to analyse and describe findings.