“www.pflegen-online.de” reports on a new measuring device that measures and records pulse, blood pressure, temperature and oxygen saturation.

The device for measuring vital data makes pens as well as tablets at the bedside unnecessary.

This new device „Connex-Spot-7500 Monitor“ (CSM 7500) weighs about 4kg and can be pushed around the room on rollers. It has a scanner that captures the patient’s identity via their wristband or the code at the foot of the bed and can assign the vital signs to individual patients – or better: their electronic files. The recorded data can thus be sent via Wlan directly to the digital patient file. Manual notes and subsequent recording in the ward computer are thus no longer necessary. Similar to the laboratory values, the vital data are immediately available. 

The devices are used in the Hanover Regional Hospital (Klinikum Region Hannover (KRH). The wards at the KRH have 36 to 40 beds, the emergency rooms up to 50. Each ward is to receive two to three devices. By the end of 2020, the conversion to the CSM 7500 devices, which cost around 5,000 euros individually including software, is to be completed.

Nursing staff will be trained in handling the devices with video instructions and information texts.

“The time saved in measurement alone is around three minutes per patient,” says team leader nursing Detlef Pfeiffer.  With the 49 beds on Pfeiffer’s ward, this adds up to hours – twice a day. In addition, there is the simplification and the reduction of sources of error. Until now, four values had to be memorised and entered into the file by hand. Today, this is done paperless, which reduces the risk of errors considerably. “Even if you get distracted once, the values are reliably recorded,” says Detlef Pfeiffer. 

He added he had not experienced any erroneous measurement since its introduction in February. “We still look at every value,” says the team leader. “At best, it can only be that it deviates if the cuff is not correctly applied.” In order to check the reliability and accuracy of the measurements, the team initially measured in parallel with telemetry and found no deviations. 

Read more (in German): https://www.pflegen-online.de/hier-muessen-pflegekraefte-keine-vitalzeichen-dokumentieren