June 14, 2010 – EarlySense, developer of the EverOn contact-free, patient supervision system for hospital and post acute care, announced the results of a multicenter study conducted at several hospitals in the United States and Israel. The data were recently made public by Drs. Eyal Zimlichman, Martine Szyper-Kravitz, Howard Amital, and YehudaShoenfeld at the American Thoracic Society Conference in New Orleans in a presentation titled, Recognizing Specific Respiratory Patterns Preceding in Hospital Clinical Deterioration, a Multicenter Study. The data will also be presented at the ILSI-Biomed 2010 conference in Tel Aviv.
The objective of the study was to evaluate the correlation between the different parameters measured by the EverOn system and the detection of patient deterioration in hospitals. More than 200 patients were monitored on the medical/surgical floors of three medical centers with the EverOn system. The results show that by combining the measurements of respiratory rate, heart rate and a new respiratory pattern alert called “Double Respiration Pattern”, patients who are likely to deteriorate are effectively identified. A risk factor of 12.2 was shown for major patient deteriorations, i.e. there was a dramatic 12.2 times greater chance of a major deterioration in patients where the system alerted versus patients where it didn’t.
“The double respiration pattern identified in the clinical trial utilizing the EverOn technology is an exciting development that may help identify patient deteriorations early on. It is well known that early identification has a very significant potential impact on improved outcomes in
hospitalized patients. This multicenter study showed that the combination of respiratory rate, heart rate and double respiration pattern alerts provide a detection rate of 90% of major patient deteriorations. We look forward to continuing to study this promising technology,”... [PDF] EarlySense's Press Release -
