prises a light-weight, wearable, wireless single patient use patch, which provides vital signs (heart-rate, respiration and axillary temperature) and wirelessly communicates this data to clinicians via the hospital’s IT infrastructure. The SensiumVitals® System is the first single patient use product aimed at the general floor and emergency room of hospitals to have received FDA 510(k) clearance and CE marking.
From an economic perspective, early interventions led to shorter hospital stays (on average, these patients’ hospital stays were four days shorter than they would have been without using SensiumVitals®) and the avoidance of more expensive acute treatments. The average cost saving for each of these patients was $