SensiumVitals® system is a wireless system designed to monitor the vital signs of patients on general wards.
The system comprises a light-weight, wearable, wireless single patient use patch, which provides vital signs (heart-rate, respiration and axillary temperature) and wirelessly communicates this data to clinicians via the hospital’s IT infrastructure. The SensiumVitals® System is the first single patient use product aimed at the general floor and emergency room of hospitals to have received FDA 510(k) clearance and CE marking.
Figure 1. Overview of SensiumVitals® end-to-end system
The system takes patient measurements every two minutes, significantly more often than current practice, where the majority of patients in hospital have vital signs taken only once each 4-8 hours. Infrequent monitoring means that deterioration in patient conditions may go unnoticed, potentially leading to longer stays in hospital, more expensive treatments or even admittance to intensive care.
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Wireless Vitals Monitor Sick Children
When a patient is in a hospital, the nursing staff and other healthcare professionals monitor their vital signs for indications of changes in their health. Patients in Intensive Care settings get around-the-clock monitoring, but for the average patient, vital signs are taken just a handful of times throughout the day. This takes up a lot of time on the part of the staff, and can still miss transient events or rapidly changing conditions until they result in major symptoms.
RAPID stands for Real-Time Adaptive & Predictive Indicator of Deterioration, and is a system developed by Isansys Lifecare. It consists of a number of different wireless sensors, including the Lifetouch device that measures heart activity (ECG) and uses Bluetooth LE to forward the data to a gateway at the patient’s bedside. Other sensors include pulse oxymeters and blood pressure monitors. This data is then sent to a system developed by McLaren Applied Technologieswhere it is analyzed and the results posted on dashboards for use by nurses and other healthcare professionals. The system provides a detailed view of a patient’s condition over time, and can issue alerts if changes are detected that require immediate response.
The system is being used as a pilot project at Birmingham Children’s Hospital in the U.K., where it is being used to monitor sick children. The program will have 500 patients by April 2016, and has an overall goal of serving 1,200 patients over the three year project.