Barts Health seeks real-time continuous vital signs monitoring system

Barts Health NHS Trust has launched a procurement process for a site-wide real-time continuous vital signs monitoring system at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London

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Barts Health NHS Trust has launched a procurement process for a site-wide real-time continuous vital signs monitoring system at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.

The hospital cares for patients requiring cardiac surgery, cardiological interventions, thoracic surgery, oncology care, and respiratory medicine.

It has 10 cardiothoracic operating theatres, 10 anaesthetic rooms, 10 cardiac catheterisation laboratories, 8 post-anaesthetic recovery beds, 54 critical care beds, and at least 50 continuously monitored beds.

There are imminent plans to open another 11 critical care beds, 3 anaesthetic rooms, 3 theatres, and 6 post-anaesthetic recovery beds.

A procurement document said: ‘Our aim is to find an optimal solution that ensures smooth patient transitions between wards, seamless data integration into our information systems, timely alerts for clinical deterioration, and continued patient mobility as we support their enhanced recovery. This process will not consider our MRI-conditional monitoring, equipment or catheter laboratory monitoring systems.

‘We have a trust-wide solution for intermittent vital signs monitoring already in place. We seek solutions that offer comprehensive multi-parameter monitoring, which can be provided directly or integrated with other medical devices.

The trust will consider various commercial solutions such as capital purchases, managed equipment services, leasing or neutral vendors.

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