{"id":1969,"date":"2014-06-14T18:04:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T23:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2014-06-14T18:25:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T23:25:27","slug":"phone-app-provides-faster-assessment-of-breathing-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/phone-app-provides-faster-assessment-of-breathing-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone app provides faster assessment of breathing problems<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1966\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PhoneAppRespiration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1966\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1966\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PhoneAppRespiration.jpg\" alt=\"A new phone app can provide a faster assessment of respiratory problems than the traditional method of counting breaths. (Photo credit: Karlen et al., 2014, via PLOS ONE)\" width=\"250\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PhoneAppRespiration.jpg 250w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PhoneAppRespiration-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new phone app can provide a faster assessment of respiratory problems than the traditional method of counting breaths. (Photo credit: Karlen et al., 2014, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0099266\">PLOS ONE<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A phone app that requires users to tap the screen after each breath can provide faster assessment of breathing problems, a new analysis shows.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Electrical engineers designed an app that measures the space between breaths and can provide a reasonable estimate of breathing rate in as little as 10 seconds. The traditional way to assess breathing rate &#8211; for example, during an asthma attack &#8211; is to count the number of breaths in 60 seconds, which can be too slow in situations where every second counts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0099266\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em>PLOS ONE\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 11, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ece.ubc.ca\/~walterk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Walter Karlen<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, University of British Columbia,\u00a0British Columbia<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A phone app that requires users to tap the screen after each breath can provide faster assessment of breathing problems, a new analysis shows.\u00a0 Electrical engineers designed an app that measures the space between breaths and can provide a reasonable estimate of breathing rate in as little as 10 seconds. The traditional way to assess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[113,125,51,53,476],"class_list":["post-1969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biology","tag-british-columbia","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PhoneAppRespiration.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-vL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1980,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions\/1980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}