COVID-19: Optimising fluid management in COVID-19 patients: an innovative urine-output monitoring system for the early detection of clinical deterioration in hospitalised patients.

世界各地医院的COVID-19重症患者需要定期监测他们的尿液量，以指导他们的水合作用和健康状况。尿量监测是一项繁琐、耗时的任务，需要由训练有素的护理人员手动完成，他们本可以专注于其他医疗保健任务。在测量、记录和提醒尿量变化方面的人为错误可能导致治疗延误，并因脓毒症和急性肾损伤等情况而导致较差的结果。在繁忙的医院环境中，即使是为了应对临床参数的变化（如减少尿量）而提供液体复苏的微小延迟，也可能导致较差的结果。在这个项目中，我们将建立一个自动尿量监测设备，这将使医护人员能够专注于其他重要的任务，例如监测病人的呼吸和心脏，并在设备识别出病人的尿量恶化时提醒他们。使用这种新型设备，我们将开展一项研究，以深入了解尿量与COVID-19患者预后的关系。

Critically unwell COVID-19 patients in hospitals worldwide require regular monitoring of how much urine they produce as a guide to their hydration and health. Urine-output monitoring is a tedious, time-consuming task that is manually undertaken by highly trained nursing staff who could be focusing on other healthcare tasks. Human error in measuring, recording and alerting changes in urine output can result in delays in treatment and poorer outcomes due to conditions like sepsis and acute kidney injury.In the busy hospital environment, even small delays in providing fluid resuscitation in response to changes in clinical parameters, such as reducing urine output, can result in poorer outcomes. In this project we will build an automated urine output monitoring device that will free healthcare staff to focus on other important tasks, such as monitoring sick patients' breathing and heart, and will alert them if the device identifies the patient has deteriorating urine production. Using this novel device, we will undertake a study to provide insights into how urine output is related to outcomes in patients with COVID-19\.