Critical Care
NICOM offers a method of monitoring patients’ hemodynamic status during critical care treatment.
Fluid optimization in critically ill patients is a strong and compelling unmet need, currently determination of fluid responsiveness is addressed either by “gut feel” or by usage of technologies that are suboptimal and/or invasive.
With NICOM built-in passive leg raise (PLR) protocol the clinician gets an immediate answer as to the patient’s fluid responsiveness. Thus, offering the ability to tailor fluid management and drug titration which implies providing better oxygen delivery to the tissues in patients who tolerate fluids, obviating excess fluids with edema and delayed extubation in those that don’t, and better usage of inotropes and drugs that improve tissue perfusion and oxygenation.
The non invasive nature of NICOM empowers nurses rather than requiring physician time.
Patients that will benefit from monitoring with NICOM in critical care units
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Post surgical (all types of major surgery)
- Sepsis
- Acute decompensated heart failure
- Hemodynamically unstable trauma & Burns patients
- Acute renal failure
