Smartphone app for neonatal heart rate assessment: an observational study

• Main Authors: Francesco Cavallin (Author), Nicolas J Pejovic (Author), Josaphat Byamugisha (Author), Tobias Alfvén (Author), Thorkild Tylleskär (Author), Susanna Myrnerts Höök (Author), Clare Lubulwa (Author), Jolly Nankunda (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMJ Publishing Group, 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background Heart rate (HR) assessment is crucial in neonatal resuscitation, but pulse oximetry (PO) and electrocardiography (ECG) are rarely accessible in low-resource to middle-resource settings. This study evaluated a free-of-charge smartphone application, NeoTap, which records HR with a screen-ta...