Both Carelife services and the healthcare sector are becoming more and more relevant in our society and in the implementation of new technology to enhance the independence and privacy of patients at clinical centers. This is why these sectors have been forced to prioritize investment in new solutions to improve patients’ care, making it possible for some tasks to be automated.
The strong aging of the population over the last few decades, along with the needs generated by the pandemic, have revealed that healthcare devices need updating and adapting in order to improve the process of following up patients – whether they are outpatients or users that benefit from telecare services allowing them to have more independence and privacy.
Today, we will focus on multiparameter monitors. This is one of the most needed healthcare tools in health centers, as they help health professionals better manage their time to treat their patients, to use the most advanced technology to gather key information of each person, and also to be able to provide them with both custom care and the kind of follow-up they need to improve their patient’s health.
What do multiparameter monitors do?
Multiparameter monitors automatically obtain and monitor physiological parameters in a professional context based on industry standards that can be integrated onto health information systems.
The screen will display vital signs and other variables that can be easily measured.
Multiparameter monitors allow thorough autonomous follow-ups of patientss with just one device. They will automatically and wirelessly gather vital signs, for the patient’s and the professional’s convenience. Great flexibility to measure a wide range of physiological parameters such as temperature, breathing rate, oxygen saturation levels, blood pressure, glucose level, coagulation, etc.
Information is displayed on a versatile screen for the professional’s convenience, making it a comprehensive mobile care center. In other words: with one single device – by means of a comfortable and minimally invasive method – all relevant medical information can be obtained in order to check a patient’s condition and to study their evolution, especially when it comes to people in recovery or suffering from chronic conditions that require frequent care to improve their quality of life.
Advantages of multiparameter monitors
Multi-parameter monitors are a very useful and cost-effective investment for healthcare centers, as well as a key tool for both centers offering telecare services and elderly homes where early diagnosis can speed up medical assistance or transport to hospital.
As for healthcare centers, it is very practical to have a mixture of fixed and portable multiparameter monitors – for interhospital and inpatient procedures – so professionals can turn to a comprehensive, easy-to-use medical tool during hospital transfers or for home care, which is very useful for follow-ups and emergencies.
With just one multiparameter monitor, a home-care health professional can:
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Monitor their breathing rate.
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Take a patient’s temperature.
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Take blood pressure with a cuff connected to a monitor that will display the corresponding information.
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Check oxygen saturation levels with a pulse oxymeter.
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Check blood glucose with a glucometer.
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Check coagulation (especially of people who have been prescribed anticoagulant medication) with a coagulometer.
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Measure the patient’s weight with a smart scale.
In healthcare centers, advanced multiparameter monitors are used to follow up every patient and submit that information to clinical records managed by physicians and nurses, so they can perform a comprehensive follow-up from just one device.
Signals and alarms triggered by the monitors when some of the parameters is a bit higher or lower than average can help coordinate an immediate intervention or be ahead of health crisis and failures.
There is no doubt that it would be easier and more efficient to improve the quality of patient’s care and perform early diagnosis if health centers had multi-parameter monitors.
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