Smart Capnography™

Smart Capnography is a family of superior algorithms that reduce alarms, improve workflow and provide clinical utility for improved patient safety. Today, Smart Capnography includes the Smart Breath Detection Algorithm™ (Smart BDA™), Smart Alarm for Respiratory Analysis (SARA™) and the Integrated Pulmonary Index™ (IPI).

Increases patient safety
- Provides a more accurate indication of patient ventilatory status changes
- Accurately responds to clinically significant events
Improves patient comfort and family satisfaction
- Patient’s sleep is interrupted less, since nuisance alarms generated during irregular respiratory patterns such as snoring and periods of pain are reduced
- Fewer alarms reduce unnecessary interruptions during family visits
Benefits clinicians
- Reduces distractions and time spent responding to clinically insignificant alarms
- etCO₂ reduces clinical risk and preserves caregiver alarm vigilance
- Improves clinical utility with a simple index, the Integrated Pulmonary Index™, providing a clear and comprehensive indication of a patient’s ventilatory status
- IPI trends provide a simple single index to quickly show changes in patients ventilatory status

Smart Breath Detection Algorithm™ (BDA™)

Unlike traditional breath detection algorithms, the Smart BDA rejects shallow, non-breath CO₂ excursions from being counted as breaths. Instead, the Smart BDA suite of proprietary filter and pattern recognition techniques screens out the low amplitude CO₂ changes superimposed on the CO₂ waveform. Only actual breaths are used to build the CO₂ waveform.

Smart Alarm Respiratory Analysis™ (SARA™)

SARA™ is an alarm management technology that recognizes and reduces respiratory rate nuisance alarms while accurately reflecting the patient’s condition and preserving caregiver alarm vigilance. Preserving caregiver vigilance to alarms is essential for patient safety.

Virtually every patient connected monitor uses audible alarms to notify caregivers of a change in patient condition or in device status. However, numerous alarms that do not indicate clinically significant issues a distraction to busy caregivers. Reducing distractions from clinically insignificant alarms helps preserve caregiver alarm vigilance, leading to improved patient safety.

Integrated Pulmonary Index™(IPI)

Integrated Pulmonary Index™ helps caregivers manage four complicated monitoring parameters with a single, simple number. Integrated Pulmonary Index™ utilizes end tidal CO₂, respiration rate, pulse rate and SpO₂ to provide an uncomplicated, inclusive assessment of a patient’s ventilatory status.

Following the trend of the index, the medical practitioner is able to evaluate the ventilatory state of the patient and instantaneously assess the patient’s ventilatory trend.

Integrated Pulmonary Index™ provides an early indication of changes in the patient’s ventilatory status that may not be indicated by the current value of any of these four parameters individually.

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