2 Clinical Trials for Various Conditions
This research study will test the comfort of two noninvasive respiratory monitoring sensors (the connection to a monitor worn by a person-not the monitor). The two sensors, Masimo Rainbow Acoustic Monitoring sensor and Oridion Smart Capnoline Plus H sensor, are cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and currently used in the clinical setting. People who enter into the study will wear the two interfaces, one after the other, for 20 minutes each (10 minutes with a small flow of air to the nostrils and 10 minutes without) and rate the comfort of each with a seven question survey. A total of 30 participants will be recruited.
This VA-based study will obtain feedback from healthcare workers via validated survey instrument on the comfort and tolerability of wearing current models of N95 respirators and novel respirator designs currently in development. There will be 4 novel respirators and 1 commonly used respirator (not locally used) to compare to a locally used respirator, which is familiar to participants. Comparisons will be examined between each of the first 5 models with the locally used control using Dunnett's t-test.