Sam Brusco, Associate Editor06.05.23
Masimo has gained U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its Radius VSM patient-worn, continuous multi-parameter vital signs monitor.
Radius VSM can monitor measurements including Masimo SET pulse oximetry, noninvasive blood pressure, temperature, respiration rate, and electrocardiography (ECG). It allows ambulation and movement with its continuous monitoring and can be scaled to match unique monitoring needs and level of acuity.
Joe Kiani, founder and CEO of Masimo, told the press, “Radius VSM’s unique scalability, versatility, advanced connectivity, and broad range of accurate and automated continuous measurements – all in a wearable device that can be quickly and easily deployed anywhere in the hospital—make it a game-changing tool for clinicians everywhere. Doctors, nurses, and patients in Europe are already experiencing the advantages of Radius VSM and we are excited to share them with U.S. hospitals now too.”
Radius VSM can be used to equip any hospital bed with comprehensive monitoring with the ability to add or remove measurement tech to match each monitoring scenario—without further bedside equipment, network infrastructure, or tethered connections. It can operate as a self-contained device, with waveform and parameter trend data displayed on its built-in multi-touch LED display.
Radius VSM can also connect wirelessly to Masimo Root and the Masimo Hospital Automation platform to automate patient data transfer to remote monitoring systems like Masimo Patient SafetyNet and electronic medical records. Integrating data from Radius VSM into Patient SafetyNet extends its reach across the hospital for clinicians remotely monitoring patients at centralized viewing stations.
It offers the following measurement technologies:
Radius VSM can monitor measurements including Masimo SET pulse oximetry, noninvasive blood pressure, temperature, respiration rate, and electrocardiography (ECG). It allows ambulation and movement with its continuous monitoring and can be scaled to match unique monitoring needs and level of acuity.
Joe Kiani, founder and CEO of Masimo, told the press, “Radius VSM’s unique scalability, versatility, advanced connectivity, and broad range of accurate and automated continuous measurements – all in a wearable device that can be quickly and easily deployed anywhere in the hospital—make it a game-changing tool for clinicians everywhere. Doctors, nurses, and patients in Europe are already experiencing the advantages of Radius VSM and we are excited to share them with U.S. hospitals now too.”
Radius VSM can be used to equip any hospital bed with comprehensive monitoring with the ability to add or remove measurement tech to match each monitoring scenario—without further bedside equipment, network infrastructure, or tethered connections. It can operate as a self-contained device, with waveform and parameter trend data displayed on its built-in multi-touch LED display.
Radius VSM can also connect wirelessly to Masimo Root and the Masimo Hospital Automation platform to automate patient data transfer to remote monitoring systems like Masimo Patient SafetyNet and electronic medical records. Integrating data from Radius VSM into Patient SafetyNet extends its reach across the hospital for clinicians remotely monitoring patients at centralized viewing stations.
It offers the following measurement technologies:
- Masimo SET Measure-through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry, including oxygen saturation (SpO2), pulse rate (PR), perfusion index (Pi), pleth variability index (PVi), and plethysmographic respiration rate (RRp).
- Multiple respiration rate measurements, including measurement from the pleth, from the sound of breathing, and from impedance.
- Measure-on-inflation noninvasive blood pressure (NIBP), featuring single-patient-use cuffs and automatic intervals (which reduces the need for periodic manual clinician measurement).
- Continuous skin temperature measurements with notifications when clinician-specified temperature thresholds are breached.
- Patient orientation, position, and activity monitoring, alerting clinicians to unsupervised patient movement and possible patient falls, as well as preventable pressure injuries.
- ECG: continuous 6-lead monitoring (I, II, III, aVR, aVL, and aVF) with heart rate, respiration rate, and lethal arrhythmia detection, using single patient use easy-to-apply pre-connected 3-electrode leadwire.
- rainbow Acoustic Monitoring, which uses an adhesive sensor to detect the acoustic signals produced by airflow in the upper airway and convert these patterns into respiration rate, also visualized as a waveform.