Overview
A recent article in The New England
Journal of Medicine highlighted how delayed
defibrillation is common and is associated with lower
rates of survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest. Over
time, the general care hospital floor has become a
high-stress, high acuity environment, where patients who
are sicker than ever before, are being cared for by
fewer clinicians. Patient safety, in terms of
preventable patient death, has become a major focus of
healthcare providers and policy makers.
• Delayed cardiac defibrillation in hospitals-
NEJM:
Volume 358:9-17, January 3, 2008
• Fewer clinicians caring for sicker patients
• Preventable death a major focus
Standards bodies such as the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JACHO), and
the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), have
taken notice of the need to address early identification
of a patient’s compromised health status and are
recommending actions that should be taken by
hospitals.The IHI suggests the creation of Rapid
Response Teams, and strongly advocates the early
escalation of patient problems to appropriately trained
clinicians.
How Technology can help
Technology can support these recommendations through
centralized surveillance and remote alarm notification.
These can be key communication vehicles for the early
identification of adverse events. These early response
hospital initiatives can now be complemented by our
award-winning solution for centralized patient
surveillance…Bernoulli Enterprise. Since hospitals are
multi-vendor environments, institutions choose the
Bernoulli Solution because it is an open platform
designed to work with different vendors’ devices, for
the benefit of the patient and the clinicians who care
for them. Patients may be connected to various types of
medical devices for physiological monitoring,
ventilation, and IV therapy. Having a simple to use,
real-time centralized surveillance system with secondary
alarming, considerably helps clinicians provide better
patient care.
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Challenges
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dedicated to reducing preventable patient deaths by
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time and pre-emptive patient care is required.
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