Anaesthesiology
Enhancing acute patient care
Dräger's Acute Care System is reported to be the first to offer a totally new approach to managing and delivering care across the entire acute care process - from emergency care to operating theatre, to critical care and neonatal care.
The company says: ‘All devices utilised throughout the entire acute care process have the same base hardware and software architecture, user interface and nomenclature. The system integrates most key acute patient care functions as patient monitoring, ventilation and anaesthesia.’
Dr Wolfgang Reim, Dräger Medical’s president and CEO, added: ‘Today, the patient environment is extremely complex. There are many devices with diverse functions, user interfaces and operating philosophies, and increasing volumes of real-time and archived data.
‘The problem is that these devices do not communicate with one another and therefore we only receive isolated information, which makes it difficult for clinicians to assess a patient’s status quickly.
‘This system significantly simplifies the technical environment around the patient, integrates diverse data sources and generates information from the data that can enable better, faster decisions.’
The system works with small, mobile plug-and-play recorders, through which a patient’s data is entered. The recorders accompany that patient throughout his or her stay in the acute care ward and can be connected with several medical devices. So the specific data is always moved around with that patient.
The data is also transmitted to the medical cockpit - a standardised control unit that enables hospital staff to access patient data, monitor patients and manage therapy devices.
27.12.2006
