Image: The Edwards EV1000 Critical Care Platform Display (Photo courtesy of Edwards Lifesciences).

A touch-screen monitor that displays a patient's physiologic status, and user-friendly clinical targets and alerts, simplifies decision-making in the operating room (OR) and intensive care unit (ICU).

The Edwards EV1000 Critical Care Platform system is designed to simplify the display and retrieval of hemodynamic information, allowing patient data to be displayed on the clinician's choice of several different screens. These screens utilize color-coding and physiologic representation of the cardiovascular circulation to reflect patient status and enable decision-making. The company's proprietary FloTrac sensor, PreSep and PediaSat oximetry catheters, and TruWave disposable pressure transducer are compatible with the platform, displaying a wide array of physiological variables to help diagnosis and treat critical illness.

Among the parameters displayed are hemodynamic parameters, such as calibrated cardiac output, calibrated stroke volume, systemic vascular resistance, stroke volume variation (SVV), and stroke volume index. Volumetric parameters include extravascular lung water (EVLW), pulmonary vascular permeability index, global end diastolic volume, and global ejection fraction. The Edwards EV1000 Critical Care Platform system is a product of Edwards Lifesciences (Irvine, CA, USA).

“I believe the key to improving patient outcomes in the OR and ICU is having continuous, real-time information about a patient's hemodynamic status at your fingertips,” said Steve Woodford, MD, director of intensive care at Brisbane Waters Private Hospital (Australia). “The EV1000 clinical platform gives me the patient data that I need on one intuitive display that enables me to quickly decide the next course of treatment for my patients.”

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