New technologies can help in the diagnosis and treatment of sepsis fast -
sepsis patients can be diagnosed and treated earlier with the help of new technologies available for hospitals and home care settings.
health agencies can now use a platform patient monitoring called status Patient Engine (PSE) to help doctors and nurses quickly pick up the disease, save some of the 44,000 lives lost each year in the UK.
The PES uses vital signs, early warning scores and data analysis to report to any change in the status of a patient and alert clinicians about what might be the beginning of sepsis faster onsets they would otherwise have been able to detect it.
Rebecca Weir, cofounder of Isansys Lifecare who developed the PES, said:
Rebecca added:
There are now 150,000 cases of sepsis in the UK each year and 44,000 deaths from the disease. Without prompt treatment with antibiotics, sepsis can lead to multiple organ failure and death.
Current research emphasizes the early detection of patient deterioration is key to improving patient safety and avoid preventable deaths.
doctors are now encouraged to reassess the way they perceive the infections to avoid overlooking sepsis.
new direction, published by the National Institute for Excellence and Health Care (NICE) said that thousands of lives could be saved by .. the implementation of these measures
guide comes in the wake of the death of William Mead toddler who died after several warning signs that he had sepsis were missed
Rebecca says:
one of the company is currently working with hospitals in the UK is the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham where the PSE is used to monitor cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. These patient groups are at high risk for sepsis and collecting vital signs of the patient continuously and in real time with the use of wireless sensors, the platform will be able to allow detection of sepsis much sooner and ensure they are treated in the -frame deadlines set by the Sepsis Six. This prevents readmissions to the hospital, or worse, deaths related to the disease.
health agencies can now use a platform patient monitoring called status Patient Engine (PSE) to help doctors and nurses quickly pick up the disease, save some of the 44,000 lives lost each year in the UK.
The PES uses vital signs, early warning scores and data analysis to report to any change in the status of a patient and alert clinicians about what might be the beginning of sepsis faster onsets they would otherwise have been able to detect it.
Rebecca Weir, cofounder of Isansys Lifecare who developed the PES, said:
sepsis is a killer, not because doctors do not know how to treat it, but because the recognition of the condition is complex and often not soon enough.ICU research shows that if is diagnosed and treated in the first hour after the presentation with sepsis, the patient has a more than 80 percent survival rate. After the sixth hour, the patient has only a 30 percent survival rate. . It consumes more than a third of our most expensive hospital beds in intensive care and costs the NHS about £ 2.5 billion a year
, collecting vital signs of the patient in real time and continuously drive us proactively an answer to this problem. This can give doctors and nurses a better chance of diagnosing and treating this condition much more quickly, which is crucial that the risk of death from sepsis increases with each passing hour, it goes untreated.
Early detection of patient deterioration is critical to improving patient safety and avoid preventable deaths
Rebecca added:
The changes in the health status of an often related to a diagnosis of sepsis patient include rapid breathing, rapid heart rate, heart rhythm pattern change and high or low temperature. Due to the integrated nature of the ESP, these parameters are continuously monitored by the platform. If one of the parameters to register an abnormal level of a patient is considered at risk of developing sepsis. The clinician is alerted to a change in the condition of the patient and they can react much more quickly than they would be able to otherwise.Sepsis, often called septicemia or blood poisoning, is a life threatening disease that can affect people of any age. He kills five Britains each hour and health chiefs warned it should be treated as an emergency such as heart attacks.
There are now 150,000 cases of sepsis in the UK each year and 44,000 deaths from the disease. Without prompt treatment with antibiotics, sepsis can lead to multiple organ failure and death.
Current research emphasizes the early detection of patient deterioration is key to improving patient safety and avoid preventable deaths.
doctors are now encouraged to reassess the way they perceive the infections to avoid overlooking sepsis.
new direction, published by the National Institute for Excellence and Health Care (NICE) said that thousands of lives could be saved by .. the implementation of these measures
guide comes in the wake of the death of William Mead toddler who died after several warning signs that he had sepsis were missed
Rebecca says:
It is vital for patient care that doctors are able to start as soon as crucial treatment for sepsis in order to save lives. Without effective monitoring, early warning signs, which could have been detected and acted upon are often missed, as was unfortunately the case here.Last year Isansys Lifecare, based in Abingdon, near Oxford, won a development contract Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) health care to reduce the risk of infection cancer patients.
one of the company is currently working with hospitals in the UK is the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham where the PSE is used to monitor cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. These patient groups are at high risk for sepsis and collecting vital signs of the patient continuously and in real time with the use of wireless sensors, the platform will be able to allow detection of sepsis much sooner and ensure they are treated in the -frame deadlines set by the Sepsis Six. This prevents readmissions to the hospital, or worse, deaths related to the disease.
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