Mangaluru, Dec 21: For the first time in Karnataka, a remote monitoring facility was implemented in an intensive care unit (ICU) in a hospital using technology in an effort to improve monitoring and critical care service for critical patients in the intensive care units.
Minister for Forests, Environment and Ecology B Ramanath Rai on Sunday formally launched a critical care technology called'Intel eICU' which enables certified intensivists at a command centre in Chennai to monitor the condition and vital signs of critical patients in the ICU at SCS Hospital located at Bendoor, Mangaluru. Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel and Dr Jeevanraj Sorake were present on the occasion among others.
Detailing about the technology at a press conference earlier, General Manager of Philips Healthcare Surya Narayanan said that the IntelliSpace Consultative Critical Care (ICCC) had been designed as a solution to monitor multiple intensive care units from a central command centre that may be located in another city.
A team of trained intensivists will oversee and monitor the condition of critical patients in the ICU at SCS Hospital, Mangaluru round-the-clock from a command centre through a high-resolution camera installed near the beds of critical patients, he said, adding that it was possible to detect critical conditions in patients and render them emergency care and treatment by monitoring them through the high-resolution camera, in the absence of an intensivist at the hospital, he briefed.
Apart from the remote monitoring facility, the complete information and vital signs of critical patients will also be made available to their concerned doctors on their electronic mobile devices through a dedicated installed mobile application, he said.
Currently, there are 1,000 beds in the country being monitored using technology supplied by Philips Healthcare, while there are three command centres in the country where trained and certified intensivists monitor critical patients, said Mr Narayanan.
The Intel eICU implemented in the intensive care unit at SCS Hospital will be monitored from a command centre located in Chennai, he informed.
Chairman and MD of SCS Hospitals Pvt Ltd Dr Jeevanraj Sorake said that the technology would help in the event of a cardiac arrest in a critical patient or when critical patients required high quality clinical observation and care. Through the Intel eICU technology, it is now possible for critical patients to be kept under observation round-the-clock in the hospital by an intensivist by monitoring them through the high-resolution cameras installed in the ICU, he said, adding that there were currently two such monitoring devices at SCS Hospital, Mangalore.
Mr Narayanan told media persons that discussions were on to implement the Intel eICU technology at R K Choudhary Hospital at Bijapur shortly.
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