Are respiratory rate counters really so bad? Throwing the baby out with the bath water
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We congratulate Baker et al. [[1]Baker K Alfvén T Mucunguzi A Wharton-smith A Dantzer E Habte T et al.Performance of four respiratory rate counters to support community health workers to detect the symptoms of pneumonia in children in low resource settings: a prospective, multicentre, hospital-based, single-blinded, comparative trial.EClinicalMedicine. 2019; (preprint)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2019.05.013Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (13) Google Scholar] on their bold attempt to evaluate respiratory rate counters. However, their data show significant variability and wide limits of agreement with all devices which are much greater than reported in previous studies. The gross errors (>30 breaths/ minute) are much more likely due to artifacts in the reference capnometer device or the lack of breath identification by the observer than test device performance. We strongly support the use of capnography as a reference device for respiratory rate measurement. However, this invasive procedure introduces many additional risks. The difficulty of using capnography in awake children is reflected in the fact that one quarter of observations were withdrawn [[1]Baker K Alfvén T Mucunguzi A Wharton-smith A Dantzer E Habte T et al.Performance of four respiratory rate counters to support community health workers to detect the symptoms of pneumonia in children in low resource settings: a prospective, multicentre, hospital-based, single-blinded, comparative trial.EClinicalMedicine. 2019; (preprint)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2019.05.013Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (13) Google Scholar]. Capnometers measure respiratory rate by detecting the presence of exhaled carbon dioxide (CO2) in each breath [[2]Eipe N Doherty DR. A review of pediatric capnography.J Clin Monit Comput. 2010; 24 (Aug): 261-268Crossref PubMed Scopus (20) Google Scholar]. The magnitude, regularity and shape of the CO2 waveform must be used to confirm the rate [[3]Krauss B Hess DR. Capnography for procedural sedation and analgesia in the emergency department.Ann Emerg Med. 2007; 50: 272-281Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (126) Google Scholar]. This is especially important in small children with rapid breathing rates and small tidal volumes which result in dilution of the end tidal gas. Expert observer counting and analysis of sequential observations from each observer should help in identifying the cause of these gross errors. The inability to identify a breath should be considered less a failure of the device and more of the observer. The clinical measurement of respiratory rate is widely used in clinical diagnosis in children. Until the performance of automated counters have been established, the use of respiratory rate counters should not be discarded based on this study alone. The authors are the inventors of the RRate app. that has been evaluated by Baker et al. Performance of Four Respiratory Rate Counters to Support Community Health Workers to Detect the Symptoms of Pneumonia in Children in Low Resource Settings: A Prospective, Multicentre, Hospital-Based, Single-Blinded, Comparative TrialNone of the four devices evaluated performed well based on agreement with the reference standard. The ARI timer currently recommended for use by CHWs should only be replaced by more expensive, equally performing, automated RR devices when aspects such as usability and duration of the device significantly improve the patient-provider experience. Full-Text PDF Open AccessMore work needs to be done to ensure that better pneumonia diagnostics aids are developed and launched to better support frontline health workers–A response to “Are respiratory rate counters really so bad” by Ansermino et al.We thank Ansermino et al for their valuable contribution to the discussion on evaluating respiratory rate (RR) diagnostic aids. We completely agree when they say “Until the performance of automated counters have been established, the use of respiratory rate counters should not be discarded based on this study alone”. While we did not test automated RR diagnostic aids in our study [1], we did see large variations in the agreement between the four RR diagnostic aids we tested and the reference standard presented, i.e the Masimo Root patient monitoring and connectivity platform with Phasein ISA CO2 capnography using nasal cannulas. Full-Text PDF Open Access
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