To improve patient care, Eastern Plumas Health Care announces that it is upgrading its central monitoring system throughout the hospital: in its emergency, acute and endoscopy rooms. The new system, called Mindray, will allow for a patient’s heart rate and rhythm, respiration, oxygen levels and other vital signs to be continuously monitored through telemetry. A small monitor attached to the patient transmits all of this information to the system and displays it for doctors and nurses, whether they are at the bedside, in another patient’s room, or at the nurses’ station.
These small monitors can also travel with patients for continuous monitoring when, for example, they go to the bathroom, undergo testing or leave the room for therapy. For patients who are more active and ambulatory but still require monitoring, three extra-small monitors, as small as a deck of cards, will be available that can be worn unobtrusively while sending continuous readings to the nurses’ station.
In the patient’s room, the monitor clicks into the in-room screen for a large display of patient vital signs for the medical team to track. An advantage of Mindray is that it allows a nurse at one bedside to split the screen on the display to simultaneously monitor a patient of concern down the hall while still keeping protected health information private. Staffers say this enables the speediest detection of any dangerous changes in a patient’s condition from wherever a nurse is working.
By providing real-time vital signs data at the bedside, Mindray also allows members of the medical team to spend more time engaging with their patients. Plus, a nurse at the nurses’ station who receives a blood pressure reading that raises concern can push a button to repeat the reading, allowing nursing staff to keep a close watch on a patient’s vital signs without disturbing the patient as often.
EPHC says the Mindray system is proven to enhance medical team workflows and to improve patient care by giving healthcare providers immediate information for the most informed decision-making.
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Information submitted by Eastern Plumas Health Care