PRODUCTS & SERVICES FIRECO AT CARE
SHOW 2014 Fireco, a supplier of fire safety products, exhibited at the Care Show 2014.
Fireco selected the exhibition as the ideal opportunity to showcase
its specialist British-manufactured fire safety products to care industry decision makers. The company’s presence at the show enabled visitors to try, test and buy the latest fire safety products and services.
Fireco hoped its Freedor product would prove particularly popular. Guidance from building regulations
directs care homes towards free- swing closers due to the benefits for residents with mobility issues. With Freedor residents can hold fire doors open for day-to-day activities but in the event of a fire, Freedor will hear the fire alarm and close the door, preventing the life-threatening spread of smoke and fire.
Freedor is the free-swing door closer of choice of the National Care Association, and Fireco is a member of its approved supplier forum. Its products and services assist with fire safety, equality and disability regulation compliance.
www.firecoltd.com
DIGITAL HEALTHCARE IN
ACTION Isansys Lifecare Ltd, the provider of real-time physiological patient data services, has announced the results of a pilot collaborative study, with UCL Hepatology and supported by UCL-Business, based on its Lifetouch device, a wireless ‘smart bandage’ cardiac monitor.
The pilot study, at the Royal Free Hospital in London, demonstrated the use of the Lifetouch to remotely assess heart rate variability (HRV) on patients admitted to hospital suffering with an acute deterioration of advanced cirrhosis. Doctors from The Institute for Liver and Digestive Health (University College London) then correlated
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the data with the severity of the disease and inflammation.
The study, presented in a paper at the International Liver Congress 2014, showed that reduced HRV monitored remotely with the Lifetouch, could identify patients with increased inflammation and more advanced disease, and those likely to present with acute decompensation of the liver.
The proof of concept study concluded that community monitoring of these patients could help reduce the number of hospital readmissions and deaths from cirrhosis.
Dr Mookerjee, Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Institute for the Liver and Digestive Health at UCL, who led the research project, said: “Currently, early warning indicators of change in liver clinical status are lacking, and
intervention is only enacted when the patient presents to hospital with advanced disease, and inevitably poor outcome. This study has shown that continuous monitoring of patients with simple information-based technology could facilitate early problem recognition and intervention.”
Chief Executive at Isansys, Keith Errey, said: “The Lifetouch is a key component in Isansys’ continuous wireless multiple vital sign data acquisition and analysis platform, the Patient Status Engine, which is in use in several NHS hospitals. The Patient Status Engine is currently being upgraded and extended to provide greater mobility and community based early interventions that will effectively allow critical care pathways to be extended beyond the hospital walls.”
www.isansys.com
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