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.

世界各地医院中的严重不适的COVID-19患者需要定期监测他们产生的尿液量，以指导他们的水合作用和健康。尿量监测是一项繁琐、耗时的任务，由训练有素的护理人员手动完成，他们可能会专注于其他医疗保健任务。在测量、记录和提醒尿量变化时的人为错误可能会导致治疗延迟和预后不良，这是由于败血症和急性肾损伤等情况所致。在忙碌的医院环境中，即使是对临床参数变化（如尿量减少）进行液体复苏时出现的微小延迟，也可能导致预后不良。在这个项目中，我们将建立一个自动化的尿量监测设备，将释放医护人员专注于其他重要任务，如监测病人的呼吸和心脏，并会提醒他们，如果该设备确定病人有恶化的尿量。使用这种新型设备，我们将进行一项研究，以深入了解尿量如何与COVID-19患者的结局相关。

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\.