Re: wireless all vital signs to a ground physician to monitor the condition of the patient

["erik usher" <erikusher@msn.com>]

Dino,

     Although a valuable adjunct to patient care, the old saying still 
proves true...."You don't treat the monitor... You treat the patient." 
Numbers on a screen and a tracing on an oscilloscope are merely a small part 
of patient care. In this industry we have worked hard to uphold the 
standards we have set for ourselves in the past years. These standards are 
that of ongoing diligent patient assessments and skewing our treatments to 
optimize the patients outcome. This is a collaborative effort through 
coordination with a base physician via telemetry, protocols and meticulous 
CQI.
     I think your technology will increase the teamwork we already have with 
the ground physicians, and maybe allow the flight crew to expand on their 
existing protocols. Hopefully it will be a great number of years before were 
out of a job and the ground physicians and patients will benefit solely from 
this technology.

Good luck in your endevours.

Erik Usher
Flight Nurse
AirLife of Las Vegas


>From: Dino Go <kabalen.geo@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: flightmed@flightweb.com
>To: flightmed@flightweb.com
>Subject: wireless all vital signs to a ground physician to monitor the 
>condition of the patient
>Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:45:02 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Do you think there is a need or market for an enhanced patient
>monitoring device that will be able to deliver wireless all vital
>signs to a ground physician to monitor the condition of the patient
>at greater than 56Kbps?
>
>In what area(s) in air medical services do you think technology can
>significantly improve to better serve patients?
>
>How about the communication technology, do you think there is a need
>for improvement in your communication infrastructure?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dino
>
>
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