Articles: hospitals.
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Improved perioperative patient monitoring is a crucial step toward better predicting postoperative outcomes. Wearable devices capable of measuring various health-related metrics represent a novel tool that can assist healthcare providers. However, the literature surrounding wearables is wide-ranging, preventing clinicians from drawing definitive conclusions regarding their utility. This review intends to consolidate the recent literature on perioperative wearables and summarize the most salient information. ⋯ Perioperative wearables are valuable tools for tracking postoperative health metrics, predicting adverse events, and improving patient satisfaction. Future research on removing barriers such as technological illiteracy, artifact generation, and false-positive alarms would enable better integration of wearables into the hospital setting.
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Evaluate prediction models designed or used to identify patients with sepsis in the prehospital setting. ⋯ PRESEP was the only evaluated prediction model that demonstrated better discrimination than unaided EMS infection assessment for the identification of ambulance-transported adult patients who met Sepsis-3 criteria in the ED.