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The Maven Pet Smart Collar system shows small bias compared to manually counted resting respiratory rates in healthy
Objective:
Resting respiratory rate (RRR) monitoring is useful when monitoring dogs with advanced heart disease for control of congestive heart failure. The Maven Pet Smart Collar system offers a feature that measures the RRR in pets. The objective of this study was to describe the agreement between Maven Pet Smart Collar-obtained and manually counted RRR measurements in dogs.
Methods:
Apparently healthy student and staff-owned dogs were fitted for a Maven Pet Smart Collar. Owners were trained to video record their dogs at home to document the RRR for later analysis. Owners were asked to collect an aggregate of at least twenty-eight 1-minute videos. Videos were collected after the dogs had rested for at least 15 minutes. Videos were used for analysis if they were within 1 minute of a collar-obtained RRR. Bland-Altman analysis was used to assess agreement between the Maven Pet Smart Collar-obtained RRR and RRR measured by the investigators from video recordings.
Results:
Data were collected from 19 dogs (n = 120 instances of contemporaneous measurements within 1 minute). Relative to the manually counted RRR, bias for the Maven Pet Smart Collar system was -0.78 breaths/min (95% limits of agreement, -6.81 to 5.26 breaths/min).
Conclusions:
The Maven Pet Smart Collar system closely agrees with the manually counted RRR, with relatively narrow limits of agreement.
Clinical Relevance:
The Maven Pet Smart Collar could be considered to aid in monitoring the RRR in dogs, especially in dogs with poorly compliant owners because it is automated. Clinicians will need to consider the limits of agreement in interpretation.
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