Up to 17% of patients in the medical surgical areas of the hospital will experience postoperative serious adverse events. 3 But which ones? Manual checks of vital signs by nurses can be time consuming, intermittent, and open to human error. IntelliVue GuardianSoftware uses a patient-oriented workflow to simplify equipment and caregiver assignment. It automatically acquires vital signs and automates early warning scoring (EWS) calculations. It is designed to identify early signs of events such as respiratory failure, sepsis or cardiac arrest, in order to enable clinicians to respond quickly and effectively. Need The late detection of patient deterioration – leading to slow transfer to the intensive care unit – is a significant predictor of death (4x times higher in- hospital

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