The FreeStyle Lite blood glucose monitoring system for people with diabetes has an innovative automatic calibration feature that eliminates the manual coding step usually required by most blood glucose meters before starting a new vial of test strips. The FreeStyle Lite meter allows people with diabetes to test quickly and more easily.

BioSign monitors five patient vital signs — heart rate, respiration rate, body temperature, oxygen saturation and blood pressure — and fuses the data into a measurable index called the BioSign Index.

With the addition of total bilirubin (tBil) to the comprehensive test menu on the Stat Profile Critical Care Xpress (CCX) “All-in-One” Analyzer, the analyzer now offers 20 measured tests, including pH, PCO2, PO2, SO2, percent, hematocrit and hemoglobin, sodium, potassium, chloride, ionized calcium, ionized magnesium, glucose, BUN, creatinine, lactate, deoxyhemoglobin, oxyhemoglobin, methemoglobin and carboxyhemoglobin in a single, compact instrument.

June 11, 2007 - Siemens Medical Solutions showcased its syngo Suite at SIIM 2007 and highlighted its collaboration with NextGen Healthcare, a leading provider of practice management software and ambulatory electronic medical record solutions.

Direct input was gathered from more than 300 nurses polled by Seca during the 2006 National Neonatal Nurse’s Meeting (NNNM) and the 2006 Association of Women's Health, Obstetrics and Neonatal Nursing (AWHONN) conference, to create the following Best Practices for weighing and measuring babies from the tiniest preemies in the NICU to full-term newborns.
Speed is of the essence

It's 2 a.m. in a Fort Wayne, IN, hospital and a critical care nurse is concerned about one of her patients. He just doesn't look right, but she can't see anything that is completely out of range on his various monitors.
In most ICUs, the nurse would have to wonder whether to awaken the doctor on call or wait until the doctor makes his rounds at about 7 a.m. Fortunately, this hospital has an intensivist on duty, and she asks him to take a look at her patient.


Patient monitoring has come a long way, and companies supplying that medical technology are continuing their work to ensure that the level of patient care doesn't depend solely on the attention given to alarms, the clinician who happens to be in the department at the time of need or the ability of staff to correctly enter what feels like an endless stream of data into an electronic medical record system (EMR). Here are a few examples of how companies are creating new technology and integrating existing technology to improve enterprise wireless monitoring.

Three years ago Judy Sudmeier was talking on the telephone at work when, without warning, her heart stopped beating. Stopped dead. But, unlike hundreds of thousands of victims of
sudden cardiac arrest, Judy didn't die.
A registered nurse working in a clinical environment, Judy was fortunate enough to be


On any given day, a car accident victim will suffer a C-spine injury. A morbidly obese individual with a history of COPD may complain of chest pain, or an inner-city youth will come face to face with the wrong end of a handgun.
While seemingly unrelated, all three patients will arrive at their local ED and pose a distinct medical challenge that is independent of their particular injuries: a difficult airway.

Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) has received increased attention in recent years as researchers and clinicians explore possible applications for the technology. Intubating patients and placing them on a ventilator is a well-established method for providing respiratory support, but it also carries with it an increased risk for infection or damage to the lungs.
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