ICU Central Monitor

ICU Central monitor

ICU central monitors are now commonplace in most intensive care units. They are connected to bedside monitors either by wired circuits or wireless links. They can display from a selection of various patient monitoring parameters depending on their configuration. Most of these monitors have also facility to store data for a few days regarding the various monitored parameters. These monitors can be electronically linked across a hospital network to enable viewing from a remote location within or outside for expert consultation if needed.

Most monitors display continuous ECG monitoring, sometimes more than one channel, depending on the programming, heart rate, respiratory rate, non invasive and/or invasive blood pressure, pulse oximetry tracing and its instantaneous value, SPO2, end tidal carbon dioxide, ETCO2. Various alarm settings are available for each parameter and the alarms can be disabled if needed in case of false alarm, either from the bedside or from the central location.