According to intestinal surgeon Emiel Verdaasdonk (JBZ), one of the biggest problems in healthcare is caused by a shortage of personnel. He is therefore starting a study into the possibilities of releasing his patients from the hospital earlier after surgery.
That would be with the help of home monitoring equipment, says Verdaasdonk in an interview with ICT&Health. The technology must therefore be in line with the equipment in the hospital.
“All five members of the project group took the sensors home, stuck them on and connected them to our telephone,” says the surgeon of the Jeroen Bosch Hospital. “Then we just went to work, sleep, walk. The next day we checked in the hospital whether all the data had been received correctly. We even checked whether we also had allergic reactions to the plasters we had to stick on.”
The home monitor equipment must be able to measure values, because these are normally monitored by nurses. Verdaasdonk therefore chose technology from Masimo. “It offered all those possibilities and you had insight into the values and the limit provisions at which time an alarm had to be sent.”
Enough patients
At least 60 patients must be connected to the study. At the beginning of July, 32 people were connected, of which 20 patients actually went home earlier. If everything goes according to expectations, the results of 60 patients can be shared in September or October.
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2023-08-20 09:09:46
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