TY - JOUR T1 - Home monitoring of lung mechanics by oscillometry before, during and after severe COVID-19 disease: a case study JF - ERJ Open Research JO - erjor DO - 10.1183/23120541.00480-2022 SP - 00480-2022 AU - Chiara Veneroni AU - Roberto Perissin AU - Fabiano Di Marco AU - Raffaele L. Dellaca Y1 - 2023/01/01 UR - http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/early/2023/01/05/23120541.00480-2022.abstract N2 - In November 2020, Europe faced the second Covid-19 pandemic wave. The need to manage patients while reducing potential exposure and healthcare system overload led to renewed interest in home-monitoring of respiratory variables. Together with variables related to COVID-19 infection [1], home-based lung imaging [2] and lung mechanics [3, 4] were used to monitor COVID-19 and chronic respiratory patients during limited access to traditional care. Home monitoring respiratory-specific variables may provide important information about patient health status and clinical course.FootnotesThis manuscript has recently been accepted for publication in the ERJ Open Research. It is published here in its accepted form prior to copyediting and typesetting by our production team. After these production processes are complete and the authors have approved the resulting proofs, the article will move to the latest issue of the ERJOR online. Please open or download the PDF to view this article.Competing interests: CV and FDM have nothing to disclose.Competing interests: RP is the Vice President, Worldwide FOT and Asthma Management Business Development, MGC Diagnostics International.Competing interests: RLD reports grants from Restech, personal fees from Philips Healthcare, outside the submitted work; In addition, Dr Dellaca' has a patent on the detection of EFL by FOT with royalties paid to Philips Respironics and Restech Srl, a patent on monitoring lung volume recruitment by FOT with royalties paid to Vyaire, and a patent on early detection of exacerbations by home monitoring of FOT with royalties paid to Restech and is co-founder and shareholder of Restech Srl, a spin-off company of the Politecnico di Milano University producing medical devices for lung function testing based on FOT. ER -