Dalcon Alert!

For Remote Patient Monitoring & Alert Management

Caregivers acknowledge and respond to many sounds and lights generated by alerts in the patient room each day. These alerts are created by telemetry, monitors, ventilators, infusion pumps, fall alerts and practically anything else.

Although notifications are crucial to administering necessary patient care, throughout the day the increasing number of audible & visual alarms can become overwhelming. Understanding this obstacle in delivering superior patient care, Dalcon has developed Dalcon Alert! as a solution.

How Dalcon Alert! Works

1. Up to 5 monitoring devices are plugged into the Remote Alert Monitor (RAM) at a single patient bed. These can include but are not limited to:
   • Bed fall/chair fall alert pads
   • IV Pumps
   • Multi-parameter monitors
2. When an alert is triggered by a device that is plugged into the RAM, it interprets the alert and sends it to the Dalcon Communications Manager (DCM) server via existing phone wiring.
3. The DCM routes the alert type and room number to the desired endpoints including:
   • Wireless Phones carried by the nurses.
   • The Overhead Pager, allowing the nearest caregiver to immediately respond.
   • The Nursing Station so each alert can be actively managed
4. The alert is logged into Dalcon’s Alert Management software, and is maintained on an active console display until canceled.
5. When the caregiver responds to the alert in the patient room, he/she can press the alert cancel button to record the time of response and to remove the alert from the active list in the Alert Management Software.

No Special Installation Requirements

Since Dalcon Alert! uses existing patient phone lines, there is no need to run special wiring to the rooms or purchase/implement special nurse call interface systems.

Better Alert Management/Documentation

Dalcon Alert! allows alerts generated by devices in the patient room to be communicated automatically to the appropriate caregivers both at the nurses stations and at specific wireless phones or pagers carried by the nurse. This real-time information about patient conditions and environment is exactly what nurses need to provide their best patient care.

The Dalcon Alert! Alert Management software simplifies active management of all alerts.  At any time, active alerts can be displayed on the monitor screen of any computer on the hospital network, including at the nurse station.

In addition, all alerts are recorded as well as the alert cancel time when the nurse is in the room for ease of reporting both real-time and for historical analysis.

Never Event/Risk Prevention

With an increasing focus on “Never Events” and the fear of injury cost reimbursement, Dalcon Alert! is the newest solution to patient fall prevention.  Dalcon Alert! wirelessly alerts caregivers directly when a patient identified as a fall risk leaves the bed or chair. The quick action enabled by this direct communication can help prevent patient falls and injury.

See also the White Paper, “An Assessment of Falls in Patients’ Rooms and Methods of Prevention” which analyzes the severity of patient fall liability for hospitals; and methods of fall prevention.

Dalcon Alert! also includes a Pressure Ulcer Management System designed to help caregivers prevent and treat never events due to pressure ulcers.

Learn More about Dalcon Alert!

To learn more about Dalcon Alert!, and how it can limit the prevalence of “Never Events,” please call (877) WE-UNIFY (938-6439) or click here to submit a question online.