Hill-Rom and EarlySense have announced an integration of continuous contact-free heart rate and respiratory rate sensing and analytics technology into Hill-Rom’s Centrella® Smart+ bed platform.
The Centrella bed can now offer continuous monitoring of patients’ heart and respiratory rates over 100 times per minute without ever touching the patient, the companies said.
EarlySense’s technology is meant to alert clinicians to potential patient problems earlier than traditional monitoring. For example, one study found that the technology can reduce mortality-related “code blue” events by 83% and cardiac arrests up to 86%.
“Hill-Rom’s Centrella bed is transforming inpatient care by integrating advanced sensing and analytics into the bed, offering a complete patient safety platform to assist clinicians in providing the highest level of care,” said John Groetelaars, president and CEO of Hill-Rom.
“EarlySense has been used to effectively monitor close to a million patients, positively affecting patient outcomes. By integrating the EarlySense technology into our Centrella beds, we are ushering in a new era in quality of care, whereby all patients can be continuously monitored throughout their entire hospital stay.”
