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Patient
For the Patient
For most hospital patients, monitoring of vital signs is carried out on average every four hours and is a manual round of observations, taking pulse rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen saturation and temperature. The respiration rate is usually counted and not measured.
The VitalStream offers a major step forward, providing beat-by-beat vital signs monitoring and a continuous connection between clinician and patient, thus enabling individualised and timely care. Movement is not restricted due to leads or cords and it is comfortable to wear. When measuring continuous non-invasive blood pressure (cNIBP), the VitalStream eliminates intermittent cuff-based blood pressure checks, providing higher patient comfort and safety.
“Catching deterioration in the early stages can mean huge improvements in patient safety and outcomes. This score offers an opportunity for the NHS to standardise how it monitors a patient’s condition across different healthcare settings”
- Profesor Sir Bruce Keogh, Medical Director NHS
For the Clinician
A patient's hospital care changes according to their condition, so monitoring of patients’ vital signs is extremely important to determine the clinical pathway for the best care. Clinicians can only address one patient at a time, and multiple patients are often assigned to one nurse. VitalStream relieves the pressure on nursing staff, by monitoring and automatically reporting multiple patients at once, it provides clinicians with a continuous picture on which to base those important decisions.
Clinicians can monitor vital signs using a tablet, mobile phone, or an integrated monitoring platform. VitalStream eliminates wires, leads and confusing connectivity/network configuration. The continuous monitoring solution enables hospital staff to maintain an up-to-the-minute picture of a patient's condition and provide early intervention and rapid response to deteriorating health conditions.
“Caretaker’s continuous Blood Pressure Technology has tremendous commercial potential for use in the OR and many other applications. We were impressed with its motion tolerance in testing.”
- George C Kramer, PhD Director, Resuscitation Research Lab Professor, Dept of Anaesthesiology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Clinician
For the Hospital
Media and regulatory scrutiny of the healthcare system have increased over the last decade, forcing hospitals, and physicians to find new systems and implement new standards to reduce adverse events and medical errors. Being able to identify early deterioration in a patient’s condition is critical to respond with the necessary speed. Currently, observations are carried out every four hours, with patients remaining unmonitored in between, this poses a risk of an adverse event going unnoticed.
As patient advocates, healthcare systems and physicians are responsible for the continuous monitoring, implementation, enforcement, and upgrading of the applicable standards. Ignorance of these standards is no longer excusable but continuous vital sign monitoring is only available in high-acuity areas like the ICU, and using machines that lack mobility, are invasive for patients, intrusive for medical staff and inhibit their effectiveness for use with multiple patients.
“Wireless, continuous monitoring devices hold enormous promise, and will be an important part of the medical landscape in the very near future. Monitoring of vital signs from virtually anywhere will play a significant role in patient care because uninterrupted monitoring can give insight into a patient’s condition in real time.”
- Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Medical Director NHS
Hospital
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