New Technology Provides Real-Time Visibility to Patients’ Vital Signs

Vigilant Medical Solutions LLC has created a mobile app and medical device solution to improve anesthesiologists’ ability to track real-time changes in patients’ vital signs.

The Guardian app, touted as the first of its kind, enables enables anesthesiologists to monitor on their smartphones and quickly respond to changes in any of their patients’ vital signs, across multiple operating rooms.
 
The AI-driven Guardian technology’s patient-specific parameters and proactive updates on vitals can decrease the risk of adverse outcomes, such as acute kidney injury (AKI), postoperative delirium, stroke, and death. The Guardian technology also helps counter distractions in the operating room, such as noise levels and alarm fatigue by sending real-time alerts to the supervising anesthesiologist, according to Vigilant Medical executives.
 
Vigilant Medical Solutions Founder Justin Scott, M.D., FASA, a practicing anesthesiologist for more than 17 years, understood the challenges associated with concurrently tracking vital signs of multiple patients. This desire to enhance vigilance and patient care drove the creation and development of hand-held, real-time case visibility. “The purpose of creating the Guardian app was to provide clinicians easy access to patient vitals, which is crucial when doctors are working with several patients across multiple operating rooms,” Scott said. “In the OR, every second counts. With the Guardian app, we are working to prevent adverse patient events and provide better outcomes by staying on top of any critical changes to our patients’ vitals.”
 
Guardian addresses current anesthesiologist staffing shortages by allowing anesthesiologists to monitor more operating rooms simultaneously, despite increased work demands on their time and attention, in a safer and more efficient manner.
 
Vigilant Medical Solutions LLC. was founded in 2014. Guardian provides safer care of patients undergoing surgery and improves the practice of anesthesia with real-time alerts and enabling faster and more efficient communication between members of the anesthesia care team. The patient’s specific needs can be monitored anywhere, enhancing response time and driving better outcomes.