Monday, February 07, 2011
St. Joseph's Health Care, London
Another Big Step in Patient Safety for St. Joseph's Hospital
First hospital in Canada to adopt the remote respiratory monitoring system called OxiNet III
(London, Ontario) - St. Joseph’s Hospital is the first hospital in Canada to adopt the remote respiratory monitoring system called OxiNet III which enables continuous monitoring of patients’ oxygen saturation levels even when the clinician is not at the bedside. Remote monitoring of a patient’s respiratory status allows clinicians to know of adverse events sooner and act faster, greatly enhancing patient safety and diminishing the risk of missed respiratory episodes. At St. Joseph’s, Hospital, the system is used to monitor patients with known or suspected sleep apnea.
“At St. Joseph’s Hospital, our highly skilled clinicians utilize the most advanced technologies to care for each patient who comes through our door,” says Anne Marie McIlmoyl, Director of Perioperative Services, for St. Joseph’s Health Care, London. “Upon careful review of the OxiNet III remote monitoring system, we felt the technology’s capability to address post-operative respiratory distress is one more tool for us to utilize in our ongoing commitment to patient safety.”
The OxiNet III provides customizable systems that effectively monitor any floor in a facility by relaying data from the bedside to a central station, creating a remote respiratory monitoring system. If a patient’s oxygen level dips below the accepted level, clinicians are alerted via visual and audible alarms at the central station and by pager alerts.
For more information, contact:
Nicole Laven
Communication & Public Affairs
Phone 519-646-6100 ext 42679
Pager 519-680-5927
Please note: After 4pm please phone switchboard 519-646-6100 and ask to have the communicator-on-call paged.
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