Sep 7 2013
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, a 387-bed facility renowned for its use of pioneering technologies, and Masimo today announced that the hospital has installed Masimo Patient SafetyNet™ in patient rooms on orthopedic, general surgery, and neurology floors.
Patient SafetyNet is a remote monitoring and clinician notification system clinically shown to keep patients safer by enabling remote continuous monitoring of the patient's physiology, including oxygenation and pulse rate, which has led to saved lives, reductions in rapid response activations and transfers to intensive care units.1
Patient SafetyNet combines the performance of Masimo SET® pulse oximetry with ventilation monitoring and wireless clinician notification. Patient SafetyNet provides an extra measure in patients' safety by noninvasively and continuously measuring and tracking changes in oxygenation that can signal a declining health status. When changes occur in the measured values, the system sends wireless alerts directly to clinicians – prompting a response to the patient's bedside.
"We are glad to have this extra layer of safety for our patients," said Adrianne Presnell, nurse manager of the orthopedic unit at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. "It really benefits our more vulnerable patients, who could potentially suffer from respiratory depression."
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 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 accurate measurements when other pulse oximeters cannot, dramatically reduces false alarms (increased specificity), and accurately detects true alarms (increased sensitivity)2,3 that can indicate a deteriorating patient. Most importantly, Masimo SET® pulse oximetry has been shown to improve patient outcomes by helping clinicians reduce retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)4 in neonates, screen newborns for critical congenital heart disease (CCHD),5,6 reduce ventilator weaning time and arterial blood gas measurements in the ICU,7 and save lives and costs while reducing rapid response activations and intensive care unit transfers on the general floor.3
"We are honored to partner with Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, a healthcare facility with a track record of adopting leading-edge technologies to help protect patients, improve outcomes, and reduce costs," said Joe Kiani, Founder and CEO of Masimo.
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