Clinical Monitoring
Continuous Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring
Detection of Patient Awareness During General Anesthesia
Expanding Capnometry to Nontraditional Settings
Hypoxemia Monitoring on the General Care Floor
Hypoxemia Monitoring (Pulse Oximetry) in the
Labor and Delivery Ward
Mobile Telemetric Vital Signs Monitoring
Objective Pulmonary Function Monitoring duringMechanical Ventilation
Portable Capnometry in Detecting Inadvertent Esophageal Intubation
Safety in the Intensive Care Unit
Safety in the Post Anesthesia Care Environment
Continuous Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring
The ability to continuously monitor the blood pressure of patients in a noninvasive manner offers benefits to clinicians and patients alike. Clinicians benefit from having an ongoing early warning capability for measuring fluctuations in blood pressure during surgical and obstetric procedures. Patients are afforded greater comfort and safety as well as fewer interruptions.
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Detection of Patient Awareness During General Anesthesia
Awareness during anesthesia may occur in up to 150,000 patients who undergo general anesthesia in the U.S. each year. Patients may suffer severe physical and psychological trauma from such an experience, which not surprisingly can also lead to significant malpractice claims. New EEG technology can greatly improve the accuracy of patient awareness monitoring during anesthesia.
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Stack, JF. Patient awareness during general
anesthesia poses risks. QRC Advisor. 1997; 13(3):1,68.
Expanding Capnometry to Nontraditional Settings
Deployment of microstream capnography in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings now enables physicians to rapidly, accurately, and noninvasively detect changes in the status of patients suffering a variety of emergency, acute, and chronic cardiopulmonary conditions. Critical decisions to admit patients for treatment, to transfer patients from intensive care units, to switch from bi-level to mechanical ventilation, and to wean patients from ventilation can be made more objectively and cost effectively using microstream capnography.
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Hypoxemia Monitoring on the General Care Floor
Hypoxemia--inadequate oxygenation of the blood--raises several significant clinical issues on the general care floor of healthcare facilities. Institution of safety standards and advances in monitoring for hypoxemia via telemetric pulse oximetry networks appear to be the most promising means of ensuring safety for patients at risk for the serious clinical effects of this preventable condition.
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Annotated Bibliography
Hypoxemia on the General
Care Floor
Article
Consortium on Respiratory Monitoring on
the General Care Floor. Principles and guidelines for respiratory monitoring
on the general care floor. Journal of Clinical Monitoring. 1996;
12:211416.
Hypoxemia Monitoring (Pulse Oximetry) in the Labor and Delivery Ward
Undetected hypoxemia--inadequate oxygenation of the blood--during labor and delivery is a hidden problem that has only recently been recognized. New clinical monitoring, particularly pulse oximetry, is not only helping identify hypoxemia when it occurs in the labor and delivery suite, but can assist in improving clinical outcomes.
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Infrared Thermometry
The advent of the infrared (IR) aural thermometer with infrared optical sensors marks a significant change in both the method and location of temperature taking, resulting in accurate, rapid and convenient temperature monitoring in a variety of clinical settings.
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Objective Pulmonary Function Monitoring during Mechanical Ventilation
Mechanical ventilation, while one of the most effective procedures in critical care medicine, has long been practiced more as an imperfect art than a science. Inadequate patient monitoring by the ventilator's built-in monitors has too often resulted in the patient fighting with, rather than being assisted by, the ventilator. New technology that monitors the patient's pulmonary function rather than the ventilating machine can effectively address this significant clinical challenge.
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Portable Capnometry in Detecting Inadvertent Esophageal Intubation
Endotracheal intubation is a basic airway management strategy in emergency resuscitation. Correctly placed, an endotracheal tube can be life saving; incorrectly placed and undetected, it can be life threatening. In the noise and distraction of an emergency setting, however, an effective procedure can all too easily become an unsafe procedure. When an endotracheal tube is misplaced in the esophagus--and this misplacement is detected late or not at all--the compromise of patient safety can be significant. End-tidal CO2 monitoring of correct tube placement offers a solution to this potentially life threatening problem, and is playing an increasing role in emergency medicine.
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Safety in the Intensive Care Unit
Paradoxically, the intensive care unit can itself be a dnagerous place, and is well recognized for its contribution to iatrogenic mishap in the hospital. Non-invasive monitoring technologies such as pulse oximetry and capnometry are contributing to improved clinical, risk and resource management in the ICU.
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Safety in the Operating Room
Undetected hypoxemia--inadequate oxygenation of the blood--has been responsible for 5,000-10,000 unexpected deaths in U.S. operating rooms. The availability of pulse oximetry, along with capnometry and halometry as newly enhanced clinical monitoring technologies promises to dramatically improve patient safety in the operating room.
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Safety in the Post Anesthesia Care Environment
Expanded monitoring capabilities, particularly pulse oximetry, can improve clinical and risk management in the post anesthesia care unit (PACU) and result in significant improvement in both clinical outcomes and efficient utilization of hospital resources.
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