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MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE

In today's Health Care environment, the need to monitor more patients with less staff is of vital concern. Having reliable and affordable remote monitoring systems can make it easier for caregivers to evaluate and respond to patients' changing and often volatile conditions.

Facilities can acquire NetViewers at a fraction of the cost of typical centrals, allowing placement of displays at almost any location, and providing unprecedented monitoring coverage in all care areas within the hospital.

VIDCO's MDP series displays all alarms, arrhythmia messages, and system messages
communicated from bedside monitors.

DISCUSSION OF CENTRAL STATION REQUIREMENTS

The MDP2020 and NetViewer MDP2040 products are the latest generation of patient viewers from VIDCO.  These low-cost, easy-to-use solutions allow hospitals to centrally or remotely display real-time physiologic data for one or multiple patients.

For customers with remote and secondary patient monitoring requirements, there is an alternative to the typical high-cost monitoring solutions available from patient monitor manufacturers. VIDCO products offer high-performance at an affordable cost with no per bed licensing. Hospital personnel view non-native displayed patient monitoring data in at least four ways.

High-End, Central Station: Viewing of all patients being monitored by a bedside or ambulatory telemetry pack. This is either for a patient care unit or for the entire hospital (the "war room" concept). In this case, having at least one high-end central station with full disclosure, beat-to-beat waveform storage, expanded trends and specialized functions is usually desired. Typical clinical
units include ICU's, Telemetry and Intermediate Care units. Major manufacturers fulfill these needs very well, but generally at a high-end price, with central stations ranging in price from $18K to greater than $40K.

Limited Function, Central Station: Display surveillance of all or selected patients being monitored. There is NO high-end central station deployed in this segment. Patient acuity may be lower, or the hospital budget may simply dictate a lower cost central station solution to remotely view patients. Typical clinical units could include smaller hospital ICUs, ERs and Intermediate Care.

Limited Function, Secondary Central Station: Display viewing of selected patients, in order to view patient status while not at the nurses' station. In this case, there is at least one high-end Central Station located somewhere on the network, but there is a strong need for 1 or more additional displays from which nurses can observe their patients at a distance when roaming the floors, to view trends, check on alarms and print out vital signs. Typical clinical units include Medical/Surgical, Oncology, Neurology and Intermediate Care units that may also have patient monitoring oversight by ICU or other staff.

Secondary Viewing of a Single Patient: Useful in OR, Emergency/Trauma, Cardiac Cath Lab &
Other Special Procedures, Radiology and Telemetry Floors & Isolation/Negative Pressure rooms for infection control purposes. Used to replicate and/or visually enlarge the data of one patient. Telemetry floors, in particular, generate strong, commonly voiced needs by clinicians to be able to view patient vital signs status at bedside during IV medication "pushes" and other procedural interventions. Most telemetry packs don't display this information locally. Many ER trauma bays and ORs use ceiling mounted repeater displays on booms for group viewing of patient status.