New device gives mobility to monitoring equipment.
A new type of patient monitor can turn any bed into a monitored bed without special wiring. The Escort-Link wireless bedside monitor uses radio frequencies instead of cables to transmit information to a central viewing station. The monitor is now being used in emergency departments, step-down units and operating rooms in about 30 hospitals. If wireless networks prove practical, radio transmissions may become increasingly common in hospitals.
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D004867:Equipment Design; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000639:trends*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D010362:Patients' Rooms; D011845:Radio; D014481:United States