Bedside portable device offers real-time monitoring for pancreatic fistulas, other conditions

Editor's Note Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the University Hospital Dresden (UKD) have developed a portable, droplet-based millifluidic device that can monitor patients for postoperative pancreatic fistula in the critical first days after surgery. The same technology might also be expanded to analyze other body fluids and diseases.…

New wearable device system could aid in remote medical monitoring

Editor's Note A new wearable monitoring device system from researchers at the University of Arizona aims to make digital health access more equitable. These research findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on December 4. The new device can reportedly send health data up to…

CEASE, Philips education, skills training improve alarm monitoring practices in surgical ICU

Editor's Note A quality improvement study led by clinicians at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, improved clinical alarm management skills and reduced alarm fatigue and desensitization among nurses in a surgical intensive care unit. The study included 115 direct-care nurses working full-time, modified full-time, or part-time schedules in a…

Bedside portable device offers real-time monitoring for pancreatic fistulas, other conditions

New wearable device system could aid in remote medical monitoring

CEASE, Philips education, skills training improve alarm monitoring practices in surgical ICU

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