The LifeSync® System allows caregivers to easily convert existing bedside monitors to wireless technology. For the first time, caregivers and their patients can get total freedom from lead wires, enabling focus on patient care, not on wire management and false alarms. In addition, patients can move about more freely and ambulate more easily. The LifeSync® System is also ideal for critical-care units, coronary care units, cardiac cath lab, stress lab, emergency departments, bronchoscopy suites and endoscopy suites where continuous bedside monitoring and frequent 12-lead diagnostic ECGs are needed.
Monitor Transceiver
Attaches directly to existing ECG monitors via standard ECG lead wires.
Receives respiration and ECG data wirelessly from the patient transceiver.
Patient Transceiver
Acquires ECG and respiration data via the LeadWear® Disposable product and transmits
to the Monitor Transceiver using Bluetooth® wireless technology.
Attaches to the patient with the disposable LifeSync® System armband.
Benefits of the LifeSync® System:
Makes existing patient monitors wireless
The LifeSync® System works in conjunction with virtually all patient monitors to create a wireless Personal Area Network between the patient and the monitor.
Increases accuracy of clinical alarms
A recent study found that the use of the LeadWear® Disposable product in place of traditional lead wires on the same patients resulted in improvement of alarm accuracy from 46% with traditional wires to 92% with LeadWear® Disposable. This dramatic improvement in accuracy (and reduction in false alarms) is attributed to the elimination of artifact caused by lead wires rubbing together, poor transmission signal in lead wires, and a reduction in lead off alarms due to untethering the patient from the bedside monitor. LeadWear® Disposable, in conjunction with the wireless system, eliminates these issues inherent in traditional lead wire configurations.
A study conducted by the Lewin Group to assess the burden of lead wire management on health care providers concluded that nurses spend 40 minutes per day, per patient, dealing with lead wires. This included responding to false alarms, untangling lead wires, and attaching and detaching lead wires to patients. When asked what other duties they would perform with potential time savings offered by a wireless system, nurses indicated they would provide more patient care, complete chart work, spend more time tracking administered medications, perform more patient education, and spend more time talking to families.
Decreases infection risk from reusable ECG wires
In a clinical study conducted at the University of Wisconsin, 77% of ECG telemetry leads that were cleaned by standard hospital methods were found to be contaminated with one or more antibiotic-resistant pathogens. These pathogens enter the blood stream through open wounds. Post surgical patients being monitored for cardiac irregularities are at risk of being exposed to contaminated lead wires. Given that it is single patient use, our LeadWear® Disposable product reduces the risk of transmission of dangerous pathogens from one patient to another.
With a wireless system, nurses can get patients up and moving without worrying about patients tripping over lead wires. It is generally accepted that earlier ambulation results in more rapid healing and shorter hospital stays, thereby reducing hospital costs.
Faster Patient Transport
The LifeSync® System allows for patients to be transported without disconnecting them from the bedside monitor and reconnecting them to a transport monitor. This improves the overall efficiency of patient transport and aids in patient flow from one unit to another.
Assures consistency of 12 lead placement (Diagnostic/Continuous)
The solution guarantees constant placement of the ECG electrodes. This guarantees consistent quality 12 lead ECG for accurate comparison and diagnosis.
Allows acquisition of 12-lead diagnostic
ECGs while maintaining continuous
bedside monitoring, and without
disturbing the patient
Radiolucent
LeadWear® Disposable is radiolucent. This ensures unobstructed chest x-ray images and clear views under fluoroscopy.
