Background
HEART
In Canada, approximately 11.1% of newborns require admission to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) after birth (Current standard monitoring technologies involve sensors that are applied to the body and connected to bedside monitors using wires and cables. Heart rate is measured The presence of multiple wires poses several hindrances. First, wires can act as a barrier to parent-infant bonding (Interestingly, monitoring technology in neonatal care has undergone little change in the last five decades since the addition of pulse oximetry as standard of care (Recently, a vital sign monitoring system called ANNE