Nov 25, 2010

Purchasing a Vital Signs Monitor for Your Medical Practice

1. Vital Signs Monitoring Systems can be divided into three groups based on acuity: low, medium, and high. These three categories represent the care settings and the types of patients to be monitored.

2. Low acuity monitors perform basic vital signs monitoring, and may be used for outpatient surgical applications with a low level of monitoring.

3. Medium acuity monitors are found in a variety of settings, including the emergency department, intermediate care unit, and general medical/surgical floors. These may be modular or configured with other add-on modules.

4. High acuity monitors are used in CCU and OR environments, or in post anesthesia care units. They may be modular or configured with other add-on modules.

5. Using a LAN based system, central-monitoring stations should display and control data from bedside monitors, in a way that a failure of any bedside monitor or central station display will not affect the performance of the entire system.

6. A monitor should be able to display data from another bedside monitor, including automatic display of alarm information.

7. The central stations should display waveforms, numeric and graphic displays, tabular displays, and calculations.


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