Respi-Rate

medappear s.r.o.

About this app

Respi-Rate is a practical application which helps healthcare professionals to determine the patient's respiratory rate.

The respiratory rate is usually determined by estimating or measuring the number of breaths at a certain time interval, followed by conversion to a one-minute respiratory rate.

With Respi-Rate, you only need to press the "Lungs button" – each time the patient starts to inhale. The application calculates the respiratory rate using its own innovative algorithm.

METHODOLOGY DESCRIPTION
For example, the "Lung button" is pressed at 00:00 (mm:ss) and 00:05 – in both cases, when the patient starts to inhale. The interval between the first and the second breath is 5 seconds. The calculated RR, in this case, is 12 (60 seconds divided by the intervals, 60/5=12).
The application takes the user's reaction time into account (the time between the start of the patient's breath and the pressing of the button in the application), and the standard deviation of the reaction time. Therefore, after each pressing of the “Lungs button", the application verifies whether the determination of the respiratory rate can be considered accurate. If not, then the application continues to define additional intervals so that the accuracy of the determined respiratory rate is at 95% ± 1 breath / min. with a regular breathing pattern.

For the most accurate calculation, it is important to keep pressing the button at the same stage of the breath cycle (for example when the patient begins to inhale). Do not use this application when the patient's breathing is irregular.

Please consult your doctor before making a medical decision.

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Ratings and reviews

exceptional app. works out the breaths per minute really fast and is accurate. It also works really well for counting bpm for pulse too. Feel for the pulse as normal and everytime you feel a beat, tap the screen. People are saying about needing 15/30 seconds, this app doesn't need that long to work out the bpm.

Good idea. When I try to get a normal rate (e.g. 12) it only allows me to capture one breath. It would be so much better (useful) of I could measure based on longer, at least 15s, or up to 60s even better!

pretty useful. would be nice if you could set the time interval for recording presses of the button. it's something like 15 secs at the moment but would be more accurate if you could set it to 30 secs or even a minute.

What's new

Fixed a bug that prevented the application from starting correctly.