GE makes several different patient monitors and you will find these throughout hospitals and health care facilities all over the world. Both the GE Procare and the line of GE Carescape monitor models are ideal in any medical health setting.
There are some differences between the two, with the Carescape line often most commonly used as a general monitor with a lot of flexibility for a wide range of patient needs. The Carescape monitors include the Dinamap algorithm, as do the Procare line and they are all designed to offer the functions and features needed by all involved in data collection, patient monitoring and review.
Small and compact with multiple mounting options for all patient rooms and treatment areas, these are designed to be practical, durable and low cost. They are also highly reliable and come with a range of functions and features that staff and patients will appreciate.
Vital Signs
Depending on the specific model of GE Carescape monitor selected, vital sign monitoring options will differ slightly. All will measure blood pressure and SpO2 measurements and some models offer a STAT mode for faster presentation of the data you need.
Some of these monitors, including the Carescape V100, are designed to be quickly moved from patient to patient. It can be operated on a continual basis with unique technology that allows it to run naturally cool without the need for additional fans that both add to the noise of traditional monitors as well as the weight.
To make temperature reading easy, some of the GE Carescape monitor options use the Exergen Temporal Scanner, which allows accurate temperature readings with the need for rectal or oral measurement. However, to provide all possible readings, the monitors can easy be used for oral or rectal temperature collection as well.
Ease of Data Management
As with the collection of vital signs, the GE monitors, both Carescape and Procare, are designed with ease of data collection and management in mind. The system can transmit information to and through any compatible network and device to other computers, patient records systems or directly to a physician or caregiver’s handheld device.
Regardless of how or where the data is transmitted to be reviewed, it is also available on the monitor as well as automatically transferred to the patient’s electronic medical records. This eliminates the need for time-consuming data entry while also avoiding the inevitable human error factor that can come into play when data is transferred manually.