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George T. Blike, M.D., Medical Director, Patient Safety, DHMC, stated,"The data that we have gathered by continuously monitoring all patients on apost-surgical general care floor since beginning this evaluation in late 2007confirms what we anticipated -- an improvement in prevention and intervention.The Masimo Patient SafetyNet system makes it possible for our clinicians toidentify patient distress earlier -- preventing codes and rescues -- andinitiate appropriate intervention more rapidly to improve patient outcomes,recoveries and clinician efficiencies. All of this contributes to a safergeneral care floor for our patients."
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Findings presented by DHMC showed an 80 percent decrease in distress codesand rescue activations and a 50 percent decrease in ICU transfers for MasimoPatient SafetyNet system-monitored patients in a 36-bed post-surgical unit.In addition, data gathered during the three-month evaluation, covering 2,587total patient days, showed that the Masimo Patient SafetyNet system supportedthe early identification of patients with sedation or analgesia-inducedrespiratory depression, cardiac anomalies identified by high and low pulserate, poor heart rate control, acute bradycardia needing atropine, new onsetA-fib, unrecognized obstructive patterns of respiration like sleep apnea, andpulmonary complications such as fat emboli syndrome, pulmonary embolus andedema.
"The bottom line is that the earlier patient distress is discovered andintervention is initiated, the better the recovery will be -- enablingpatients to get better faster and go home quicker," said Dr. Blike. "Thedecreases in codes, rescue activations and ICU transfers are crucialindicators that we are catching deteriorations much earlier and that patientsare safer because of it. We expect that our continued evaluation efforts willyield more financial and statistical data concerning Patient SafetyNet'simpact on length of stays, patient throughput and new diagnosisidentifications."
An influx of more acute patients, the growth and use of patient-controlledanalgesia, an increasing number of patients with obstructive sleep apnea, andthe ongoing clinician shortage are the realities of today's general carefloors. As a result, patients on general care floors are at increased risk ofun-witnessed adverse physiological events, like respiratory distress orcardiac arrest. If the patient is not monitored reliably using pulse oximetrytechnology with high specificity and sensitivity, adverse events on thegeneral care floors may result in long-term health complications or death.Only Masimo Rainbow SET Pulse CO-Oximetry technology provides the greatestsensitivity, at 98 percent, and the greatest specificity, at 97 percent, basedon independent and objective references that have examined oximeterperformance in real clinical environments.
The Masimo Patient SafetyNet system combines the "gold standard"Measure-Through-Motion-and-Low-Perfusion performance of Masimo Rainbow SETPulse CO-
