Dalcon Alert
For Patient Care Notification & Alert Management
Caregivers acknowledge and respond to many sounds and lights generated by alarms in the patient room each day. These alarms are created by telemetry, monitors, ventilators, infusion pumps, fall alerts and practically anything else.
Although alarms 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(Pat. Pending) as a solution.
See the Androscoggin Valley Hospital Dalcon Alert Success Story
How Dalcon Alert! Works
- Patient care devices are plugged into the Remote Alert Monitor (RAM) at a single patient bed. These can include but are not limited to:
• Bed alarm systems
• Chair fall alert pads
• IV Pumps
• Multi-parameter monitors - When an alarm is triggered by a device that is plugged into the RAM, the RAM interprets the alarm and wirelessly sends it to the Dalcon Communications Manager (DCM) server.
- The DCM server records the alarm in a database and then pushes a notification out to the Alarm Management Display screen located at the nursing station.
- Finally, the DCM server generates text message notifications and pushes them out to wireless devices carried by facility caregivers.
When the caregiver responds to the alarm in the patient room, he/she presses the cancel button on the RAM to record the time of response and to remove the notification from the list of active notification in the Alarm Management Software.
No Special Installation Requirements
Since Dalcon Alert uses wireless technology, there is no reason to run hardwiring to the room or purchase/implement special nurse call interface systems.
Better Alarm Management/Documentation
Dalcon Alert allows alarms generated by patient care 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 Alarm Management software simplifies active management of all alarms. At any time, active notifications can be displayed on the monitor screen of any computer on the hospital network, including at the nurse station.
In addition, all notifications are recorded as well as the alarm 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.
