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Patient care beyond vital signs
A new vital signs workstation, from Mindray, offers the potential to advance patient monitoring – using the latest technology to improve outcomes, workflows and efficiency.
Often the first indication of abnormal physiological body changes,1
accurate vital
signs are essential to improving patient outcomes. The more accurate, detailed and efficient the bedside observations, the lower the risk of avoidable harm later in the patient care journey. However, with intense workloads and a wide range of observation criteria that differ between patient groups, departments, spot checks or admissions, workflows need to be supported by technology that’s fast, customisable and comprehensive. Vital signs machines must therefore incorporate human factors into their design, to allow caregivers to maximise the efficacy of their work. The new Mindray VS9 vital signs workstation unlocks the full potential of bedside observations to improve patient outcomes, offering advanced workflow customisation options, fully-compliant National Early Warning Score (NEWS2) software and comprehensive clinical parameters.
Customising your workflow To handle the diverse range of patients and varied workflows experienced by caregivers, the VS9 offers up to 10 different customisable workflow profiles which can be configured to the department’s clinical requirements.
This level of customisation not only improves individual levels of patient care, providing a more relevant
picture of patient health, but also allows comprehensive documentation at the bedside, shortening workflows and eliminating the need to enter patient observations into separate systems. By streamlining
workflows, customisable profiles give caregivers
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more time to physically examine their patients and complete more comprehensive assessments usually recorded as manual observations. The VS9 satisfies this need for human and electronic observations, allowing caregivers to input up to 30 manual observations per patient, such as fluid balance or FiO2, to efficiently capture the most valuable and relevant patient data. Such a thorough and expansive range of parameters and profiles would not be possible without the device’s vivid and intuitive 10” touchscreen design, delivering more information on one screen for a greater insight into patient health.
Scoring NEWS2 with confidence Not only does the VS9 enable faster, more complete methods of patient observation; its integrated NEWS2 scoring system presents a clear picture of patient health with customisable escalation details to ensure a timely response to patient deterioration. Fully compliant with NEWS standards, the automatic scoring system removes the need for manual calculation, minimising transcription errors and improving patient safety in the process.
Extensive bedside parameters In order to better detect patient deterioration and ensure greater compliance with healthcare directives, the workstation’s range of monitoring parameters go further than ever to ensure patient safety and clinical efficiency. The VS9’s new orthostatic blood pressure (BP) feature targets a key, but often overlooked, area of patient safety: falls. Falls in hospitals are the most commonly reported patient safety incident with more than 240,000 reported
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in acute hospitals and mental health trusts in England and Wales.2
This critical area
of patient safety not only severely impacts patient safety and confidence, but it also costs the NHS on average £2,600 per fall, with the figure rising dramatically for older patients experiencing more severe impacts.3 To help address one of the major fall risks, the National Audit of Inpatient Falls (NAIF) recommends that all patients aged over 65 years should have a lying and standing BP taken as soon as practicable.4 These measurements are used to look for signs of orthostatic hypotension (OH), which is measured by a drop in orthostatic BP when standing.5
The VS9 provides a clear and easy-to- understand assessment of orthostatic BP, enabling caregivers to record sitting and standing measurements, before displaying a clear summary screen with a simple positive/negative result indicator. With this measurement caregivers can easily spot and identify any risk of OH with minimal training. The NAIF study also found that only
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