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NICOM. Hemodynamics as a Vital Sign - Is Now RealityTM
In critically ill patients, NICOM offers the answers to questions regarding fluid responsiveness, choice of drugs and differential diagnosis. Answers, that bear immediate impact on morbidity and mortality.
Cheetah NICOM is used in multiple in-patient settings such as ICU MICU, SICU, CCU (also the post critical care Step-Down Unit), Anesthesia, Peri-Operative Step Down/recovery, and emergency departments (ER).
In these wards, the most challenging situations are presented to clinicians. Clinicians must have real time, continuous flow of information concerning their patients to arrive at the correct diagnosis and choice of treatment. Patients are in frail conditions, some may be non cooperative, prone to infections and severe hemodynamic complications.
The hemodynamic insight provided by NICOM is of crucial importance to patients’ outcome. Keeping in mind the associated cost of treatment, the required multi team efforts, the invasive nature of current available hemodynamic monitoring systems, the advantages that a risk free, non invasive, nurse driven monitoring system such as NICOM offers are even more valuable.
NICOM is currently being used in many leading medical centers across the US and around the globe, bringing advanced hemodynamic monitoring capabilities to everyday clinical practice.
Tailored treatment such as offered by NICOM usage is perceived to:
- Non invasive solution means less catheter related blood stream infections (complicate up to 5% of central venous catheters) that present staggering clinical and economic costs.
- Reduce ventilation time
- Reduce invasive lines
- Reduce use of expensive medications
- Decrease hemodynamic complications
- NICOM empowers nurses rather than requiring physician time to insert lines
