CSJ looks at two recent additions to the NICE Medtech Innovation Briefings, which focus on medical device technologies that have the potential to help accelerate innovation in new treatments and diagnostics.
The Clinical Services Journal looks at two recent additions to the NICE Medtech Innovation Briefings, which focus on medical device technologies that support the NHS Five Year Forward View and which have the potential to help accelerate innovation in new treatments and diagnostics.
Monitoring vital signs outside an ICU has, traditionally, relied on nursing staff conducting checks at set intervals. This can result in a delay in detection of deterioration. Continuous monitoring of vital signs can alert doctors or nurses of an imminent clinical event.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline on acute illness in adults in hospital recommends that physiological parameters, including heart rate (HR) and respiratory rate (RR), should be monitored at least every 12 hours. These observations provide the basis for risk stratification of patients using systems such as the National Early Warning Score System (NEWS). Patients are assessed upon admission and those with low deterioration risk scores have at least 12 hourly monitoring. Higher scores necessitate more extensive monitoring.1
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