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Non-Physician Primary Healthcare Workers
Features:
1. 24/7—continuous wireless remote monitoring.
2. Multipatient, simultaneous monitoring in hospital environment.
3. No loss of data, even when user with sensor moves away from the Bluetooth range.
4. Pre-settable alarm range for hyper-/hypothermia.
5. Directly computable data provide reliable temperature trend in graphical form.
6. Data and graph can be mailed, stored, and printed.
7. Shareable and reusable.
12.2.6 Role of Continuous Temperature Measurement in
the Community by Paramedical Workers
1. There are exceedingly high rates of resistance of Gram-negative bacilli to almost
all antibiotics (Giuliano KK 2006).
Several reasons for this can be cited. In the community setting, fever without focus
is treated with antibiotics by all and sundry, including parents. The single most reason cited is the fever phobia. “If something bad happens…, so we give antibiotics.”
This fear can be greatly reduced if temperature is monitored every second and
the same is sent to both parents and the treating physician. The treating physician
can fix his upper limit and can be messaged. The very thought that the child is
remotely monitored by the medical team gives immense relief to the mother.
2. So is the case of febrile seizures, where every shake of the child makes the parents
wide awake.
3. Last 20 years have seen the use of transplants and home management of leukemia
going up.
The single most predictor of early infection in this class is the rise in temperature
or its opposite hypothermia. Febrile neutropenic patient numbers are also going up.
4. For want of beds, people, including children and the elderly, are discharged with
an intravenous cannula in the forearm. They usually complete the antibiotic
course at home. They visit the nearest healthcare facility once or twice daily. The
one sure, noninvasive way of managing them is to record temperature.
5. India is becoming the preferred destiny for research and vaccine evaluation. The
temperature monitoring in those cases expands the role of FEVERWATCH ® .
6. Regarding temperature measurement in seizures, febrile seizure is differentiated from
epilepsy on the basis of temperature. If temperature does not rise, within 24 hours
of onset of fits, then we can conclude it to be afebrile seizure, possibly epilepsy.
7. Infrastructure-related issues like logistics management severely affect the healthcare outcome, especially vaccination/organ transplantation movements. Cold
chain management as well as the refrigerators at each practitioner’s place, where
power supply is erratic, needs proper continuous monitoring.
8. Other community use is in hostels. During fever cases, question arises, to treat the
inmates in hostel or at hospital or send them home, preventing the illness spreading to other children. Selectively, the students can be sent home or hospitalized or
monitored in the hostel by paramedics.
Non-Physician Primary Healthcare Workers
Features:
1. 24/7—continuous wireless remote monitoring.
2. Multipatient, simultaneous monitoring in hospital environment.
3. No loss of data, even when user with sensor moves away from the Bluetooth range.
4. Pre-settable alarm range for hyper-/hypothermia.
5. Directly computable data provide reliable temperature trend in graphical form.
6. Data and graph can be mailed, stored, and printed.
7. Shareable and reusable.
12.2.6 Role of Continuous Temperature Measurement in
the Community by Paramedical Workers
1. There are exceedingly high rates of resistance of Gram-negative bacilli to almost
all antibiotics (Giuliano KK 2006).
Several reasons for this can be cited. In the community setting, fever without focus
is treated with antibiotics by all and sundry, including parents. The single most reason cited is the fever phobia. “If something bad happens…, so we give antibiotics.”
This fear can be greatly reduced if temperature is monitored every second and
the same is sent to both parents and the treating physician. The treating physician
can fix his upper limit and can be messaged. The very thought that the child is
remotely monitored by the medical team gives immense relief to the mother.
2. So is the case of febrile seizures, where every shake of the child makes the parents
wide awake.
3. Last 20 years have seen the use of transplants and home management of leukemia
going up.
The single most predictor of early infection in this class is the rise in temperature
or its opposite hypothermia. Febrile neutropenic patient numbers are also going up.
4. For want of beds, people, including children and the elderly, are discharged with
an intravenous cannula in the forearm. They usually complete the antibiotic
course at home. They visit the nearest healthcare facility once or twice daily. The
one sure, noninvasive way of managing them is to record temperature.
5. India is becoming the preferred destiny for research and vaccine evaluation. The
temperature monitoring in those cases expands the role of FEVERWATCH ® .
6. Regarding temperature measurement in seizures, febrile seizure is differentiated from
epilepsy on the basis of temperature. If temperature does not rise, within 24 hours
of onset of fits, then we can conclude it to be afebrile seizure, possibly epilepsy.
7. Infrastructure-related issues like logistics management severely affect the healthcare outcome, especially vaccination/organ transplantation movements. Cold
chain management as well as the refrigerators at each practitioner’s place, where
power supply is erratic, needs proper continuous monitoring.
8. Other community use is in hostels. During fever cases, question arises, to treat the
inmates in hostel or at hospital or send them home, preventing the illness spreading to other children. Selectively, the students can be sent home or hospitalized or
monitored in the hostel by paramedics.