Aug 26 2013
Douglasville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and Masimo today announced that the hospital has deployed Masimo Patient SafetyNet™, clinically shown to help improve patient outcomes and save money.1
Patient SafetyNet can help ensure patients' safety by noninvasively and continuously measuring and tracking their underlying physiological conditions and detect changes that signal declining health status in real-time. When changes occur in the measured values, which may indicate deterioration in the patient's condition, the system automatically sends wireless alerts directly to clinicians – prompting a potentially lifesaving response to the patient's bedside. Patient SafetyNet also has been clinically shown to reduce preventable, costly rescue events and transfers to intensive care units.1
"Whenever we hear the alarm we can respond to it right away and get to the room fast," Vannie Lee, director of respiratory therapy at Douglasville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, said of Patient SafetyNet. "It gives us a heads up on what's going on with our patients when we're not at the bedside. Patient SafetyNet has saved many patients' lives here. I don't know what I'd do without it."
The installation of Patient SafetyNet at Douglasville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is part of the healthcare organization's standardization to Masimo SET® Measure-Through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry. The performance of Masimo SET® is proven by more than 100 independent and objective studies and thousands of clinical evaluations. Masimo SET® is trusted by clinicians to safely monitor more than 100 million patients each year and is used hospital-wide by eight of the top 10 U.S. hospitals on the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals Honor Roll (2013-2014). Compared to other pulse oximeters during patient motion and low perfusion, Masimo SET® provides measurements when other pulse oximeters cannot, dramatically reduces false alarms (specificity), and accurately detects true alarms (sensitivity)2,3 that can indicate a deteriorating patient. Most importantly, Masimo SET® pulse oximetry has been shown to reduce ventilator weaning time and arterial blood gas measurements in the ICU,4 and save lives and costs while reducing rapid response activations and intensive care unit transfers on the general floor.3
"We are excited to partner with Douglasville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center to help address its need for continuous patient monitoring," said Jon Coleman, President, Masimo Worldwide Sales, Professional Services and Medical Affairs. "With the addition of Patient SafetyNet and Masimo SET® Measure-Through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry, Douglasville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is armed with powerful technologies to help improve patient outcomes and reduce costs of care."
Source: http://www.masimo.com