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F R O M
T H E
S H O W
F L O O R
EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES
ccNexfin
SURGICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
SIS Surgery Dashboard
Surgical anesthesia depends on information, and the more immediate
the information, the better. A couple of days before the conference,
Edwards Lifesciences acquired BMEYE, the Dutch company that developed the ccNexfin non-invasive hemodynamic monitoring system. It's
an impressive technology.
An inflatable cuff wrapped around the middle of a finger uses
Masimo's Rainbow SET technology to read a pressure waveform
from the artery. From this,
the system derives continuous, beat-to-beat blood
pressure, oxygen saturation, stroke volume, pulse
pressure and other realtime cardiac output parameters. The only way you'd
otherwise have this information is by deploying a
Swan-Ganz catheter or
intra-arterial line, which
you wouldn't usually do
with surgical patients. The
CARDIAC CONDITIONS Edwards
Lifesciences's non-invasive cardiac
output monitoring system.
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