Philips SureSigns VS4 Monitor Owners Manual

According to Centers for Medicare & medicaid Services (CMS) Preventive Maintenance Regulations (2011) Medical Equipment (e.g., laboratory equipment, IV infusion equipment, biomedical

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The name of their electronic monitoring system is the VitalPAC. The VitalPAC allows nurses to plug in information about their patients easily onto an iPAD. This accurately records what time treatment was giving and what dosages were given. This method helps staff members do their jobs but also holds them accountable for their actions. With electronic monitoring a timestamp records exactly when a patient received treatment. Electronic monitoring records who the caregiver was taking care of the patient and where the treatment took place. The benefits of electronic monitoring are immeasurable. “We welcome technology that improves the care we can offer, but it will never replace the face-to-face contact that our patients value” (Downey, 2015). Oswestry Orthopaedic Hospital is the first orthopaedic provider to adopt the electronic system. The system replaces all paper charts and makes everything paperless which is beneficial to the facility keeping everything organized and taking up less space. Electronic file saving also reduces the loss of records in case of a fire or other natural disaster. VitalPAC is very helpful to nurses producing an observation chart automatically and calculating an early warning score. Calculating a warning score can be very time consuming if done manually. “Recording vital signs data regularly and accurately is central

- Risk to patients if the alarm signal is not attended to or if it malfunctions

Alarm fatigue is out of control, and patients are being harmed, if not killed. Alarm fatigue is a disturbing subject in healthcare and primarily in the acute care setting in all institutions. In the acute care setting, alarm fatigue is the constant barrage of noise consisting of an excessive amount of information being communicated by medical devices such as blood pressure, intravenous pumps, and electrocardiogram machines. Alarm fatigue is a nationwide concern and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience database received 566 details of patient deaths related to medical device alarms between 2005 and 2008 (Bai et al., 2014). Deaths are normally attributed to the physiological or chronic health of the individual, not alarm fatigue. In 2010, an analysis exposed 73 alarm-related deaths with 33 directly linked to physiologic monitors (Cvach, 2013). Routinely alarms are intended to warn the clinician to situations that deviate from what is conceived as ‘normal’ for the patient, not a stressful, irritating barrage of noise.

Some of the units in my hospital are equipped with monitors. One of such units is the Intensive Care Units (ICU) where critically ill patients who may need intubation and require their vitals to be monitored round the clock are admitted. In my unit, we use a vital signs machine. The type we use can take the four most important vitals with a push of one button. These four most important signs are taken to assess the general physical health of the patient. The four vital signs are:

The process our prototype package covers is how to assess the state of a patient's essential body functions using vital signs. In order to check a patient's vital signs you must assess their temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate and blood pressure. This process is used by college students who are pursuing a career in the medical field. The part of this process we will be showing is how to properly check someone's pulse and respiration rate.

My knowledge in this area is reflected with my understanding in the concept of remotely monitoring patients is not new but recently a lot of attention has been placed on smart wearable body sensors (SWS). Therefore, these devices contain an assortment of different sensors which can be used to monitor variables and transmit data either to a personal device or to a storage site. The variety of the sensors can be attributed to the types of stimuli that they respond to, for an example, physiological vital signs, body movements, and organic substances and their placements clothing, subcutaneous implant, body part accessory, and many more. These devices have the opportunity to meet the patients’ needs by administering information in real-time to the patient’s smartphone, computer or other wireless devices and has the potential to influence their behaviours. The sensors allow patients to self-monitor, track, and assess human physiological data, while also providing interfaces and a dashboard for healthcare providers. These sensors are easily managed and are becoming increasingly accurate and reliable for patient care. The SWS’s can also be utilized as a diagnostic tool to

Physiological Monitoring. The Philips patient monitoring system can be centrally managed and has the ability to send patient alarm data from the medical device via a transmission protocol to the middleware alarm system. The system also has localized visibility and audible sounds on the local patient monitor inside the patient room

The patient was in the intensive care unit. The patient was attached to an EKG monitor, required

Telemetry monitoring has been proven to improve mortality in certain disorders where cardiac dysrhythmia is likely or possible (Dressler et al., 2014). However, studies

VITAL SIGNS: Temperature 98.2, pulse 91, respirations 24, blood pressure 158/71, oxygen saturation 95% on room air.

While further research is needed, we need to be focused on positive patient outcomes. Nurses should set set realistic individualized parameters on monitors when possible in an effort to reduce nonsense alarms. Parameters should be at a reasonable level to grab their attention at appropriate times when an intervention may be required.

The healthcare field is revolutionizing and always finding ways to make processes quick, effective, and conveniently accessible. An aspect of this revolution includes the use of diagnostic wearables. Wearables are positively impacting healthcare with the use of modern medicine and biotechnology, and healthcare professionals and patients are using them more readily. Being able to receive comprehensive real-time health information on one’s smartphone or smart watch allows patients to be able to track their health on a daily basis. These diagnostic devices are non-invasive and can transmit health information to physicians within seconds at any given time. These devices especially benefit senior citizens or patients living alone with chronic

Universally, across international acute care organizations with a vested interest in healthcare safety, there is recognition that clinical alarm systems pose a hazard to patient safety (TJC, 2014; Lukasewicz & Anderson, 2015). The Joint Commission (TJC) issued a Sentinel Event Alert in 2013 on device alarm safety which subsequently led to the creation of the National Patient Safety Goal 06.01.01 (TJC, 2014). The alert and goal was published with an aim at acute care hospitals because of reported adverse and sentinel patient events and data that related to the nature of these events, indicating there is significant risk related to clinical alarm systems. The NPSG 06.01.01 is a requirement