Monitoring Temperature in Healthcare Environments
Filed under: Intelligent Sensors, SensorProbes, environmental monitoring, temperature monitoring
Recently, I had the opportunity to visit a family member in the hospital who had just delivered twin girls. The babies came several weeks ahead of schedule, and although they were both healthy, we were told that they were going to need to be in the NICU for several weeks.
After spending hours visiting the hospital, surrounded on all sides by the constant noise of beeping monitors, I really began to appreciate the precision under which the modern hospital is run. It is a finely tuned machine and temperature monitoring is an extremely important part of the operation of that machine. In fact, one of the main reasons that the twins needed to stay in the hospital was that they hadn’t developed the ability to self-regulate their own body temperature. They needed to be in the temperature-controlled environment of the incubator. The entire room in which they were staying also needed to be kept at a precise temperature for the times when they were outside the incubator, bonding with their mother.
When you think about it, there really isn’t a location in a healthcare environment where temperature monitoring is not a major issue. From monitoring the temperature in a patient room for their comfort and safety to the temperature of the coolers that store medications and vaccines, temperature monitoring is a life-or-death concern. The Ravica line of SensorProbes can help with the temperature monitoring needs of any hospital or clinic. Some specific locations where the sensor probes would be useful are:
- Patient Rooms
- Operating Rooms
- Blood and Tissue Banks
- Cold Rooms in Pharmacies
- Vaccine Storage
- Hospital Data Centers
The BitSight monitors and temperature sensors can be scaled to a single room or linked together for whole ward monitoring depending on the specific needs of the facility. Instant notification of a potential problem can be sent to nursing staff and corrected before critical thresholds are passed. In the healthcare environment having a reliable environmental monitoring system in place is literally a life-saver.
~ Jessica
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