For Physicians
LifeBed™ helps physicians and nurses save lives
According to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, as many as 40% of unexpected hospital deaths occur on medical/surgical units.
The LifeBed™ Patient Vigilance System was created to continuously and silently capture a patients’ heart and respiratory rates and bed position. If a patient’s condition worsens, nurses are immediately alerted through the hospital’s existing call system. It’s the patient care breakthrough that physicians and nurses have wanted.
LifeBed watches over your patients when no one else can
Countless hours and thousands of dollars and can go into evaluating a patient’s condition, developing a correct diagnosis and establishing a care plan. And that’s just the beginning of the investment in care that health care professionals and hospitals make for every patient. The LifeBed system helps ensure that this investment of time, talent and money pays dividends by “watching over” the patient 24 / 7. The LifeBed system helps ensure that everything that is done for patients isn’t lost because of an unnoticed change in their condition. Any patient’s condition can deteriorate unexpectedly and sometimes rapidly. With the increased patient acuity on med/surg units, and the increasing nursing shortage, nurses may not be aware of rapid patient changes, and won’t know to intervene. Early recognition may save a life.
LifeBed system helps you better manage care
Since the LifeBed system tracks heart and respiratory rates it may allow an earlier transfer of a patient from ICU or telemetry to a med/surg unit. The LifeBed provides technology that enables nurses to provide safe care for patients just out of intensive care, emergency or operating rooms who do not need intensive monitoring, but who do need extra vigilance. Allowing for the best management of patient care and hospital resources.
Institute for HealthCare Improvement targets patient safety
Similar to the Joint Commission Goal 16, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s “Transforming Care at the Bedside” initiative aims to improve patient safety in med/surg units. One of this program’s key strategies is to promote “rapid response teams that can ‘rescue’ patients before a crisis occurs.” Of course, is impossible to “rescue patient’s before a crisis occurs” if the nursing staff doesn’t know that the patient’s condition is worsening. Early detection and intervention are the new expectation.
LifeBed System helps RRTs know when to respond
Wouldn’t it be great if a Rapid Response Team (RRT) was at the bedside sooner, before a patient’s condition becomes critical? The LifeBed system helps make this possible by alerting nurses to potential problems within seconds after a patient’s condition begins to worsen. The LifeBed system enables the nurse to get to the bedside quickly to assess the patient, intervene or, if necessary, call the RRT. With the LifeBed system, patients who might otherwise decline unnoticed get the earliest possible intervention.
LifeBed System helps you respond to the reality of sicker patients
The acuity of med/surg unit patients seems to increase each year. Patients are older, sicker and have more co-morbidities and risk factors. The LifeBed system helps manage this situation by tracking patients who would otherwise be unmonitored.
A better fall prevention system
HealthGrades reports that one of the greatest patient safety risks is post-operative hip fracture due to falls. In fact, many hospital injuries and subsequent mortalities are associated with patient falls. Patients who are neurologically deficient, or disoriented from post-op pain medication require a system to prevent them from leaving their beds unattended. To discourage potentially serious falls, the LifeBed system can alert the nurse through the hospital's nurse call system, and can play a pre-recorded “please return to bed” message to the patient. This feature even allows a nurse or family member to record a personalized message for the patient in any language.
Patients praise hospitals that use the LifeBed system
Patients and family members who are aware of the system, love the idea of continuous vigilance that the LifeBed system provides. From their point of view, it provides reassurance that the hospital and nursing staff are actively concerned about patient safety and quality care.
Become a leading hospital in patient care and safety
Whether it is the Joint Commission, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement or the National Patient Safety Foundation, there is a universal call for hospitals to improve patient safety.
Joint Commission mandates hospitals to implement Goal 16 by end of 2008
June 2007, the Joint Commission announced new patient safety goals for hospitals. Goal 16 mandates hospitals to “improve recognition and response to changes in a patient’s condition.” This must be fully implemented “across the organization” by the end of 2008. It is axiomatic that if clinicians do not know about a patient’s deteriorating condition, they cannot do anything about it.
Choose to be a leader. Deploy the LifeBed system throughout your med/surg units. You’ll meet mandated goals, gain the praise of healthcare organizations promoting patient safety and have a powerful opportunity to demonstrate leadership to your boards, employees, patients and the general public. Best of all, you’ll be saving lives.