Friday, May 11, 2012

INRatio2 Blood Coagulation Monitor by Hemosense, Inverness Medical

             INRatio2 is the latest version device of INRatio used to monitor your blood coagulation, persons for those who had thrombotic disorders, such as damage from heart attack, mechanical heart valves, or atrial fibrillation. Because anticoagulant medicine will depends in the patient circumstances in terms of its effectiveness, especially for those patient in diet, alchohol intake, illness , medication levels may need to be changed periodically. INRatio2 a medical device that a patient can use it at home by placing a drop of blood on the INRatio Test Strip. This device is applicable now in many hospital to monitor the blood of the patients to determine the blood coagulation specially for those patients diagnose of thrombotic disorder and it is very helpful because we get the record faster winthin seconds only.
                   This is how to used and how it works;
  • A Test Strip is inserted into the INRatio2 monitor,
  • A drop of fresh whole blood from a fingerstick is applied to the strip,
  • The blood is drawn into the test area by capillary action where it mixes with reagents that cause coagulation to begin,
  • The monitor performs the PT test AND2 quality control test (normal and therapeutic) simultaneously, and determines whether the controls are within present limits. If they are, strip integrity is verified, and the monitor reports the PT test result. If they are not, the monitor displays an ERROR message.
  • The test results are displayed in less than 60 seconds.               


Thursday, May 10, 2012

Cardio Defender Smartphone - based ECG for Cardiac Arrhythma

Cardiodefender

            Cardiodefender is a device that has been newly released by the Everist Genomics for medical purposes. It is used to help detect arrhythmias and to help the patient monitor their own heart rate throughout the day. This device is designed by using a wrist watch-like to collect the data from electrodes and its transmitted via Bluetooth to a smartphone. This device has got the FDA approval and EU's CE Mark. The doctor will be notify via email, page or other electronics after the device activates or "alarmimg" when getting the unwelcome graphs.

            Other features offered by this device name Cardiodefender are the following; 
  • long-term monitoring capability
  • heart-rhythm monitoring
  • quantitative analysis
  • reporting along with the capability to capture 
  • report symptomatic and asymptomatic arrhythmias   

  Cardiodefender is very helpful and resourceful device using for the patient because through this device, nurses who are busy and assign many patients in the ward their work done immediately because they dont need to minitor by using stethtoscope to listen or identy the patients heart rate and it will take a long time, so if the hospital use this device  nurses work immediately and work faster because you set only the device to monitor the heart rate od the patients and when you set this it automatically the result will appear and you immediately record the result into the chart and referred to the doctor if ever there are abnormal result.

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