Hospital bed integrates with monitoring software to identify risks

Hospital bed manufacturer Hill-Rom has integrated continuous monitoring of heart rate, respiratory rate and analytics into its Centrella bed.

The Centrella bed now captures rates more than 100 times per minute without touching the patient, alerting clinicians to potential patient deterioration events quicker than traditional monitoring methods, enabling health teams to intervene faster. It achieves the integration by using the technology of vendor EarlySense.

“No patient should deteriorate without prior warning in the hospital environment,” says Frank Overdyk, MD, a user of the joint technology and a professor of anesthesiology at Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine.



“Events such as opioid-induced respiratory depression and loss of life from failure to rescue are no longer acceptable given the availability of continuous vital sign monitoring,” he adds.

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Vendor tests of the technology found that integration of the Centrella bed with the EarlySense monitoring software include reducing mortality related to code blue events by 83 percent and cardiac arrests by 86 percent.

Further, hospital length-of-stay dropped by 9 percent and ICU days fell by 45 percent, the vendor contends. Several clients also report that the combination of technologies assist with early detection of sepsis.

“By integrating the EarlySense technology into our Centrella beds, we are ushering in a new era in quality care where all patients can be continuously monitored throughout their stay,” says John Groetelaars, president and CEO at Hill-Rom.