Masimo Corporation02.17.16
Irvine, Calif.-based Masimo Corporation has earned 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the Root patient monitoring and connectivity platform, which provides noninvasive blood pressure and temperature measurements.
Root with noninvasive blood pressure enables clinicians to measure arterial blood pressure for adult, pediatric, and neonatal patients, with three distinct measurement modes: spot-check, automatic interval and stat interval. The non invasive blood pressure module is supplied by Morrisville, N.C.-based SunTech Medical Inc. The temperature module (provided by Skaneateles Falls, N.Y.-based Welch Allyn Inc.) is indicated to measure the temperature of adult and pediatric patients.
With the addition of noninvasive blood pressure and temperature to the Root platform, clinicians can automatically chart vital signs data directly from Root. Enhancing the solution with Masimo Patient Safetynet allows data to be sent directly to the patient’s electronic medical record while alarms and alerts are forwarded to the patient’s clinician.
Root with noninvasive blood pressure and temperature provides a monitoring solution for step-down, medical, and surgical environments. Clinicians on a unit equipped with this technology are expected to be able to continuously monitor their patients and automatically document vital signs while improving workflow, allowing them to spend more time with their patients.
“We are excited to bring this addition to the U.S. market,” said Joe Kiani, founder and CEO of Masimo. “We designed Root to do for patient monitoring what PCs did for computing. By creating a platform which allows third-party measurement expansion, with an intuitive user interface and network connectivity, we hope to speed up innovation while reducing the cost of monitoring, as well as potentially improving patient care and patient safety.”
Masimo is a provider of noninvasive monitoring technologies.
Root with noninvasive blood pressure enables clinicians to measure arterial blood pressure for adult, pediatric, and neonatal patients, with three distinct measurement modes: spot-check, automatic interval and stat interval. The non invasive blood pressure module is supplied by Morrisville, N.C.-based SunTech Medical Inc. The temperature module (provided by Skaneateles Falls, N.Y.-based Welch Allyn Inc.) is indicated to measure the temperature of adult and pediatric patients.
With the addition of noninvasive blood pressure and temperature to the Root platform, clinicians can automatically chart vital signs data directly from Root. Enhancing the solution with Masimo Patient Safetynet allows data to be sent directly to the patient’s electronic medical record while alarms and alerts are forwarded to the patient’s clinician.
Root with noninvasive blood pressure and temperature provides a monitoring solution for step-down, medical, and surgical environments. Clinicians on a unit equipped with this technology are expected to be able to continuously monitor their patients and automatically document vital signs while improving workflow, allowing them to spend more time with their patients.
“We are excited to bring this addition to the U.S. market,” said Joe Kiani, founder and CEO of Masimo. “We designed Root to do for patient monitoring what PCs did for computing. By creating a platform which allows third-party measurement expansion, with an intuitive user interface and network connectivity, we hope to speed up innovation while reducing the cost of monitoring, as well as potentially improving patient care and patient safety.”
Masimo is a provider of noninvasive monitoring technologies.