The technology represents an important advancement in patient safety and quality of care, as false alarms often lead to ‘alarm fatigue’ among nursing staff and results in non-responsiveness to deteriorating patient conditions.
This is important when providing continuous surveillance to the Med/Surg floors, where nurses traditionally monitors patients manually by spot checks every four hours.
Nihon Kohden said the combination of the Prefense system and smoothing algorithm provides constant surveillance while reducing false alarms.
The algorithm and the Prefense system will be demonstrated at National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition (NTI) in Chicago from 3-5 May 2011.
Nihon Kohden is a marketer in patient monitoring, sleep assessment, neurology and cardiology instrumentation and distributes its products to hospitals, physician’s practices, mobile services and outpatient and surgery centers throughout North America.
