New Monitoring for Wangaratta Private Hospital

Wangaratta Private Hospital has just extended its patient monitoring capability with the purchase of 4 additional patient monitors.

Director of Clinical Services Ms Sheryl Kier says “the increase in surgical and medical patient admissions of a more complex nature highlighted the need to expand the patient monitoring capabilities within the hospital”.

The hospital recently purchased 4 additional Dash Monitors, the features of which have enabled the hospital to have a portable monitoring solution capable of meeting a wide range of acuity demands. The features include ECG, pulse oximetry, noninvasive blood pressure, temperature, respiration. Invasive monitoring modules have also been incorporated into the system.

“The purchase, valued at over $50,000 will assist Wangaratta Private Hospital in providing a higher level of care for the community of Wangaratta”, Ms Lewis stated.

Previously the 4 bed High Dependency Unit had the capacity to monitor 2 patients. The recent purchase has expanded that to all High Dependency beds, plus an additional 2 step down beds. To ensure continuity of care all 6 beds are networked to a central monitor within the unit, however the systems advanced capabilities enable the lightweight monitors to be used as a portable system also. This gives the flexibility to reliably move a patient throughout the entire hospital, or to move the monitor to another area of need.