Noninvasive Continuous Total Hemoglobin in the OR?
Tech-y things that should happen in the OR but don’t:
1) Electronic record accessible via touchscreen that shows a given patient’s entire medical history including every radiologic study they ever had and every encounter with any health care provider at any institution.
2) Voice recognition bed control so when the surgeons asks for the table up it happens without anesthesia intervention.
3) Wireless ASA monitors.
4) A reliable noninvasive way to monitor analgesia, CBC, lytes, Blood gases, cardiac output, cerebral/myocardial perfusion. etc etc.
It would be fairly reasonable to assume the many of these things won’t happen anytime soon. Or will they?:
From Masimo press release:
Irvine, California – January 9, 2012 – Masimo today announced FDA 510(k) clearance and full market commercial launch of the Masimo Pronto-7®—a palm-sized handheld device designed for quick and easy noninvasive spot-checking of total hemoglobin (SpHb®), SpO2, pulse rate, and perfusion index.
This is not the first effort by our friends at Masimo to make most monitoring non-invasive. Keep up the good work and I sincerely hope to see same papers testing the efficacy of this product in the OR.
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