For pre-hospital resuscitation emergencies, Philips offers a complete care cycle solution that combines accurate diagnosis and rapid delivery of evidence-based solutions with timely information exchange to and through the hospital in support of the cardiac emergency whenever and where it happens. Philips' solution are impacting the timing and location of life-saving decision-making and therapy delivery.
Integrated monitoring, diagnosis and treatment
Responding to an out-of hospital cardiac arrest with the HeartStart MRx Monitor/Defibrillator, paramedics are able to seamlessly transition from monitoring to diagnosis to therapy without wasting critical time. For patients in cardiac arrest, every second counts.
The HeartStart MRx with the Q-CPR feedback and measurement tool is designed to ensure that the Philips' evidence-based resuscitation therapies are delivered quickly, accurately and in the proper sequence.
12-lead ECG transmission
With the Philips HeartStart MRx Monitor/Defibrillator, a paramedic can connect the ECG leads to a patient in cardiac arrest, and then transmit the 12-lead ECG data to clinicians in the emergency department. In the ED, clinicians can use the ECG to confirm the pharmacological interventions being delivered in the field following resuscitation and to begin assessing what treatment the incoming patient will need.
Since the MRx allows a hospital to begin organizing its resources - before a patient even arrives - it can help dramatically reduce the delay to treatment.
Resuscitation data captured for review
With the HeartStart Event Review Pro running, the entire code is captured and stored for the post-event review to help a team reach its full potential for saving more lives. These breakthrough application provides a robust, insightful view of an resuscitation event, along with built-in easy to use navigation to pinpoint areas in a specific patient's code event for learning and improvement.
Continuous temperature monitoring for hypothermia
The use of the post-resuscitation hypothermia for victims of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is gaining broader acceptance. As such, the need to continuously monitor temperature is becoming more critical. Only the Philips HeartStart MRx Monitor/Defibrillator offers this important feature to support post-resuscitation hypothermia. The HeartStart MRx is able to provide accurate and continuous temperature data, which is key to ensuring patient safety.
Integration into the Philips IntelliVue Clinical Network
While patients receive hypothermia therapy or other post-arrest interventions in the hospital, they can continue to be monitored with HeartStart MRx, which has both wired and wireless networking capability to the Philips IntelliVue Clinical Network. As the first and only advanced networked, this means that waveforms, vitals and alarms from the MRx stream in real-time to the IntelliVue Information Center and can be reviewed using a range of Clinical Review Applications on IntelliVue. Clinicians can monitor or silence alarms from IntelliVue. Patients monitored by the MRx in a chest pain room, in the emergency department, or at the cardiac cath lab for example, have the added safety of surveillance at the central station.
The IntelliVue Clinical Network centralizes patient information, streamlining documentation and reporting. For regulatory reporting such as the Joint Commission's mandate for sentinel events, the MRx's networking capability ensures continuous streaming of patient data to the IntelliVue Information Center for inclusion in the patient chart.