Continuous wireless pre‐ and postoperative vital sign monitoring reveal new, severe desaturations after vascular surgery

Abstract

Deviating physiology is common in patients before and after vascular surgery. A longer duration of severe desaturation was found on the first postoperative day in the ward compared to preoperatively, whereas moderate desaturations were reflected in postoperative desaturations. Cumulative duration outside thresholds is, in some cases, exacerbated after surgery.