Charting Module for NICU

A new charting and documentation module is designed for use in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to aid doctors in caring for critically ill babies.

The module provides a continuum of documentation from stabilization through discharge, high- and low-risk procedure listings indicating procedure tolerance and interventions, and environmental check and alarms limits, as well as systemic assessments, entries from other NICU devices, and ongoing episodic records of apneic and bradycardic occurrences.

The charting module, called the OBiX perinatal data system, was developed by Clinical Computer Systems, Inc. (CCSI, Elgin, IL, USA) and is jointly marketed by CCSI and Spacelabs Medical, Inc. (Issaquah, WA, USA). The module can be viewed on an existing Spacelabs patient monitoring system, enabling nursing staff to use it right at bedside on equipment already in place. Spacelabs offers a variety of monitors designed for the NICU.

Spacelabs monitors equipped with WinDNA enable clinicians to view and control Windows applications directly on the patient's bedside monitor, permitting the display of extensive laboratory and diagnostic test results and documentation on one patient screen.

"The module demonstrates the kind of ‘best of breed' solutions we can provide by working together,” said Dave Tilly, president and CEO of Spacelabs. "Our goal is to help clinical staff make more efficient, better-informed decisions, giving them the gift of more time to care for their smallest, most vulnerable patients.”





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