Point of Care Monitor Merges Patient Information

A point of Care (POC) monitor provides caregivers with a unique level of integration between patient monitoring data and hospital information systems (HIS).

The high-acuity Carescape Monitor B850 directly links hospital networks, electronic medical records (EMRs), diagnostic images, lab results, and third-party devices with real-time patient monitoring data to support efficient clinical decision-making. This enables the monitor to integrate its continuous clinical measurements with other elements of the patient record, delivering it at the POC. The monitor also provides customized clinical information displays by care area and clinician preference, while also enabling hospitals to standardize on a monitoring platform throughout the organization. The monitor also provides alarms, trends, snapshots and events, and calculations and can be connected to displays, printers and recording devices.

The B850, which can serve as a stand-alone monitor or can be interfaced to other devices, is part of an easy-to-use system that can be customized to meet a variety of clinical needs, such as "cart-less” diagnostic electrocardiograms (ECGs) at the bedside; administration of anesthetics with real-time, integrated anesthetic management tools that analyze drug therapy information, bedside viewing of hospital EMRs, as well as X-rays, labs, and other diagnostic reports, including the associated diagnoses from the hospital's experts. The Carescape Monitor B850 is a product of General Electric (GE) Healthcare (Chalfont St. Giles, United Kingdom), and has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

"The Carescape Monitor B850 reflects GE's commitment to a new approach to patient monitoring - one that transforms streams of once uncoordinated patient data into meaningful, easily accessible clinical intelligence,” said David Ataide, vice president and general manager of monitoring solutions and diagnostic cardiology at GE Healthcare. "Because each hospital care area treats a unique group of patients with distinct clinical needs, the Carescape Monitor B850 now enables standardization on a single monitoring platform that can be customized to meet specific care area demands.”

The system is indicated for monitoring status of hemodynamics (including ECG, ST segment, arrhythmia detection, ECG diagnostic analysis and measurement, invasive and noninvasive blood pressure, pulse oximetry, cardiac output, and temperature); airway gases and gas exchange, including O2 Consumption CO2 production, energy expenditure, and respiratory quotient; and neurophysiological function, including Bispectral Index (BIS), electroencephalography (EEG), Entropy, and Neuromuscular Transmission (NMT) Monitoring.

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