This new alarm system works better than the old one, in which all nurses on duty on the ward were called. This is a lot more efficient and quieter: they receive fewer alarms. The alarms they do get are always meant for them and contain much more information.
Of course, the patient can still call for help, but the signal now runs via a message server to smartphones that nurses have in their pocket during their shift, explains the spokesman for the Albert Schweitzer hospital. First, the call appears in the app on the phone of the nurse who actually cares for the patient in question. If she/he responds with the announcement that she is temporarily unavailable, or does not respond quickly enough, the call will automatically be forwarded to the set ‘buddy’. If they cannot come immediately, the system will automatically divert even further to other colleagues. Disruption due to beepers sounding everywhere at the same time is now a thing of the past.
Monitor and infusion pump
And this is only part of the innovation. Thanks to the special software of the message server and smartphones, the monitor on which the patient is lying, or an infusion pump, for example, can also send an alarm via the same route. The nurse can click through the app to the device that has ‘called’ and see what the nature of the report is and what values have been measured. In situations where a camera hangs near the patient, you can click through to the live image. It
The number of devices to be connected is in principle unlimited.
The new call system has now been installed in the children’s department, the Emergency Department, C3 (Neurology) and recently at the Rhena Birth Center. The IC and CCU will be next next spring. More specialist monitoring equipment is available there, so more data can also be sent to the app.
