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The Wireless Vital Sign Monitoring System is a portable, inexpensive wireless vital signs monitoring system that uses radiofrequency technology to monitor patients.

Acute hospitalization requires heart rate/rhythm monitoring, arrhythmia diagnosis, and myocardial ischemia detection. Remote vital signs monitoring can help clinicians monitor patients.

As we usher in this new age of technology aimed at monitoring health, there’s still a need for an answer on which of today’s emerging health monitoring products work best for our hospital’s monitoring accuracy requirements. Especially in terms of monitoring a patient's heart rate.

Despite efforts, detecting patients whose condition is trending towards a failure to rescue is frequently delayed in hospitals due to a wide range of systemic issues. From failing to record and evaluate patient vital signs on a regular enough basis to failing to recognize a trend that indicates the patient’s condition has worsened. Continuous vital sign monitoring technologies could serve as the foundation for a solution.

There have been multiple studies that support the connection between missed vital signs and higher mortality rates in acute care hospitals. Accompanying those studies, a growing body of research demonstrates the need for continuous vital signs monitoring in hospital settings to improve outcomes and prevent Failure To Rescue (FTR) events that end in a patient’s unexpected death. Here's how continuous monitoring of patients can improve hospital care and prevent adverse effects.

Continuous health monitoring systems can support the improvement of healthcare delivery, patient safety, patient satisfaction, and clinical workflow.

With sicker patients, less nursing staff and too many tasks to complete in a shift, bedside staff frequently don’t have the time to take a set of vital signs, let alone actually count a patient’s respiratory rate. Instead, bedside staff eyeball the rate based on their experience, charting a standard respiratory rate of 16 or 20. Then, that respiratory rate, along with other vital signs, are then entered in an algorithm (Modified Early Warning Score (EWS)) that is designed to identify patient deterioration. But with inaccurate respiratory rates and vital signs being taken less frequently than ordered due to time constraints, high MEWS levels that could have identified patient deterioration are miscalculated or even missed.

Emergencies can occur unexpectedly and without warning. As a result, fall detection technology is a vital, life-saving component in medical alert systems. If you are unable to hit the help button following a fall or during a medical emergency, the automated fall detection feature of a medical alert system can provide you with the assurance that you will still receive the assistance that you require.

Monitoring vital signs in the hospital is an essential aspect of providing basic patient care, but how often and what other technological systems (electronic medical record for documentation and staff phones for notification) should be integrated, is a question of patient safety.

Vital signs monitoring is an important component in assessing a patient's progress during their hospitalization. However, when nurse staffing levels are low, vital signs monitoring may be missed potentially leading to poor patient outcomes, transfers to higher levels of care, and even death.