Validation of the NTX Wireless Patient Monitoring System (TATRC)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypotension; Bradycardia; Hypertension; Tachycardia; Desaturation

Treatments: Other: Rapid Response Team (NTX wireless monitoring system)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00644644

061241

Details and patient eligibility

About

• Reduction in time to detection of Clinically Significant events
• Reduction of time to Intervention during Clinically Significant events
• Reduction in the number of admissions to Intensive Care

Full description

1200 patients will have wireless monitors attached to their arm. They will be randomized to have their vital signs filtered through software that generates alerts, or software that does not generate alerts. Low and high limit alarms will be set according to published guidelines and adjusted at will by the response team. If appropriate the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Rapid Response team will be initiated per Institutional Policy

Enrollment: 1,303 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Ability to give written informed consent
• Patients that are hospitalized for longer than 24 hours and are located on the 4th, 5th, or 6th floor of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Round Wing
• Patients must be ≥18 years of age

Exclusion criteria

• ICU patients
• Female subjects who are pregnant
• Patients < 18 years of age
• Patients that have a contradiction for continuous Blood Pressure monitoring

Trial design

1,303 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Description:

monitored

Treatment:

Other: Rapid Response Team (NTX wireless monitoring system)

2

Description:

control