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TotalCare Connect SpO2RT® Therapy System is suitable for patients with or at risk of pulmonary complications due to immobility and those at moderate to high risk of tissue damage.

Complications of immobility such as nosocomial pneumonia are amongst the most commonly acquired infections in critical care¹ with statistics showing affected patients have higher morbidity and mortality rates¹.

However, the effects reach far beyond the patient, increasing caregiver workload with higher dependency rates, and exacerbating the financial burden on the hospital as the costs of caring for the patient rise with length of stay in both the critical care department and the hospital increasing.¹

New for TotalCare® Connect

With this latest version of the TotalCare Bed Hill-Rom have developed the most easy to use caregiver interface – a colour touch screen interface with improved graphical representation of key data. In one survey 90% of caregivers could immediately use the interface without additional training. On most versions of the new TotalCare Conenct frame the caregiver interface can be positioned on either side of the frame or on both sides.

In addition within the recording of data Hill-Rom have, at the request of our customers, enhanced the data collection by including the FullChair information and by providing a choice of settings for popular head of bed alarm.

Progressive Mobility™ Therapy programmes

The TotalCare® Connect family of products are the only specialised support systems available to day which can offer important mobilisation therapies necessary to assist your patient through increasing levels of mobility from Continuous Lateral Rotation Therapy to assisting them to standing:

• Continuous Lateral Rotation Therapy
• Preliminary tilt table
• Sitting upright – from supine through 30° head of bed elevation to FullChair® position
• Chair Egress™ position

Read more about Progressive Mobility™ Therapy programmes »  

Product overview

Enhancing patient outcomes

Learn how you can achieve the following patient outcomes through the help of Hill-Rom TotalCare Connect. Click on the pictures below to read more.

References

1.Vincent J.L., et al The Prevalence of nosocomial infection in intensive care units in Europe: Results of the European Prevalence of Infection in Intensive Care (EPIC) Study, JAMA 1995 274:8 639-644

2.Kappenstein I., et al Prolongation of hospital stay and extra costs due to ventilator associated pneumonia in an intensive care unit. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 1992

3.CDC Guidelines for Prevention of Nosocomial Pneumonia 1997 MMWR 46(RR-1) 1-79

4.Krishnagopalan S. Body positioning of intensive care patients, clinical practice versus standards. Critical Care Medicine. 2002

5.Ahrens T., et al Progressive Mobility™ Therapy Guidelines for Critically Ill Patients. Advancing Nursing. 2005

6.Fink M.P., et al The efficacy of an oscillating bed in the prevention of lower respiratory tract infection in critically ill victims of trauma. Chest 1993 103 1543-1547

7. LaGrange K., A comparison of non rotational and rotational interventions. Hill-Rom White Paper. 1997