Perspectives

In today’s healthcare landscape there is more data, increasing complexity of biomedical devices, and cybersecurity risks, leading to more overlap between the roles of clinical engineers and IT than ever before. You play a crucial role in ensuring optimal patient care by keeping your facility’s fleet of biomedical devices ready to go. When facing challenges such as workforce shortages, increasingly complex medical devices, and limited resources – it can make it hard to accomplish your list of growing tasks. Stay ahead of the curve in the HTM industry by exploring our articles and videos, which address top strategies and tips for overcoming these challenges through proactive maintenance of devices, enhanced asset management, technical training, and more. By implementing these cutting-edge strategies, you can help your healthcare organization improve patient outcomes, enhance efficiency and costs, and address workforce challenges. 

Entropy™ measures the state of the brain and has been shown to reflect the different phases of anesthesia. The use of Entropy in adults has been found to reduce the use of certain hypnotic drugs, therefore, helping anesthesiologists to tailor anesthetic drugs for each patient, helping avoid unnecessarily deep states of hypnosis, including burst suppression that has been associated with increased risk of delirium.¹

As healthcare systems grapple with increasing demands and workforce challenges, the need for efficient care is more critical than ever. Here, we explore the rationale behind revisiting traditional approaches to low flow anesthesiology, highlighting the transformative potential of embracing automation technology in the pursuit of enhanced patient care and sustainability. 

Patient surveillance is a constant challenge for medical institutions around the world. On one hand, spot checking could be suboptimal and lead to missed events during non monitored 4 to 6 hours window. On the other hand, over utilization of telemetry systems could prove to drain hospital resources and increase costs. Continuous vital signs monitoring can help clinicians identify early signs of deterioration, allowing early intervention without over use of telemetry.

ECG stress testing plays a key role in the evaluation of cardiac patients¹, and yields valuable prognostic information², which is invaluable in determining treatment and management of patients. 

Explore the latest ASA and ESAIC clinical guidelines and other educational content regarding how quantitative neuromuscular transmission (NMT) monitoring can play a pivotal role in guiding your next steps in patient care. 

By utilizing EMG-based technology with NMT monitoring, you can accurately measure the electrical activity of the muscle. Quantitative NMT monitoring can help inform when to extubate or avoiding residual neuromuscular blockade to minimize postoperative complications and enhance patient safety. Discover the invaluable insights NMT monitoring offers in the timing and dosage required for the safe reversal of neuromuscular blockade, which can help prevent excessive costs and potential challenges like reintubation or reoperation.

In the face of increasing case load and complexity, along with ongoing staffing challenges, hospitals are finding innovative ways to evolve care models.  Here, we share how clinicians are revisiting acuity adaptable care models, continuing to expand the “care anywhere” concept, and leveraging new use cases for continuous monitoring to manage these challenges head on.  

Maintaining optimal body temperature for newborns can be a challenge due to their underdeveloped skin, underdeveloped ability to sweat or shiver, large surface-to-body mass ratio, and higher metabolic rate. Here we share information and insights on how clinicians help keep newborns at an ideal temperature and thriving.

The ever growing pressures care teams face are a concern for all areas of the healthcare industry. Our podcasts and articles will be discussing the challenges perioperative care teams must overcome to provide patients with quality care, safety, and efficiency.