Patient Monitoring Replacement Forecast

Patient monitors and monitoring systems are a staple for all healthcare facilities and healthcare delivery organizations. The continuous monitoring of patient parameters such as heart rate, heart electrical activity, oxygen saturation (Spo2), blood pressure, temperature, and other specialty measurements is a common feature for the care and safety of patients. Patient monitoring systems must record, collect, and display physiological data accurately and in real time to support clinical decision making during treatment. Patient monitoring can be rigorously defined as “repeated or continuous observations or measurements of the patient, his or her physiological function, and the function of life support equipment, for the purpose of guiding management decisions, including when to make therapeutic interventions, and assessment of those interventions [Michael SM, Gardner RM. Decision Support Systems in Critical Care. Springer; 1994].” The data provided by patient monitors are used for a multitude of applications: it directly affects the diagnostic and therapeutic treatment plans for a patient, alerts care providers to potential life-threatening incidents, and provides insight on the control of connected life-support medical devices. Physiological monitors can be found everywhere within a hospital. Depending on the acuity of a department or their intended application, the complexity of the device can vary as to how many parameters are monitored, whether it is bedside (fixed), po...
Source: Journal of Clinical Engineering - Category: Medical Devices Tags: FEATURE ARTICLES Source Type: research