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Years ago, Nihon Kohden America began its quest to help hospitals save lives and avoid costs. Since then, the 5 Million Lives Campaign has demonstrated that every patient in the hospital qualifies as an at risk patient—not just those in conventionally monitored areas such as critical care or telemetry. Yet traditionally, and primarily due to cost and staffing issues, continuous monitoring and observation takes place only in monitoring units. This situation creates significant risk exposure among the large number of patients in Med/Surg wards, where many of the 15 million instances of medical harm occur each year.
We believe these events can be prevented, along with the additional treatment and hospital time that result. And we believe that our advanced technology will make it happen.
Defensive monitoring™—the next evolution of saving lives and avoiding costs.
Prefense™ goes far beyond the traditional spot-check monitoring strategy. As such it has created its own category—defensive monitoring—that has three critical attributes:
Technology-enabled – Prefense leverages Nihon Kohden America’s advanced technology capabilities, integrating with NTX and the premise of the 5 Million Lives Campaign to form a proven solution that prevents adverse patient events
Improves quality – Quality is vastly improved when Prefense is deployed. As opposed to traditional spot-check monitoring, Prefense allows medical personnel to track trends in vital statistics with a simplified, easy-to-use low acuity detection system. The ability to track trends gives hospital staff advance warning that is unobtainable using the traditional vital signs implementation with other monitoring methods.
Cost-effective – In the past, monitoring patients’ vital signs continuously has been too expensive to implement in all areas of the hospital. The cost-effectiveness of Prefense allows monitoring to be performed anywhere in the hospital—including those areas where no monitoring currently takes place even though the risk of adverse patient events is high.
The Prefense™ solution.
In sports, the saying goes that the best offense is a good defense. That’s the idea behind our new solution called Prefense—Early Detection & Notification System™. It allows “defensive monitoring” to be performed throughout the hospital, even in areas where no patient monitoring traditionally occurs.
The Prefense system consists of:
- A new, low acuity detection system interface that is simple, easy to use, and cost-effective
- NTX wireless telemetry transmitters connected to Prefense
- Pagers for nurses, Rapid Response Team members and other care givers in need of notification
The NTX is the world’s first ergonomically designed wireless telemetry transmitter that allows patients the freedom to ambulate. Simply connect the NTX to the patient and it integrates seamlessly with Prefense’s new, low acuity detection system—resulting in a new solution for hospitals that are striving to improve quality while controlling costs.
While monitoring every patient’s vital signs has historically been impractical due to cost of entry, Prefense represents an affordable solution—a complete system designed to prevent adverse events in previously unmonitored patients.
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