GE Healthcare ApexPro Telemetry System Brochure

GE Healthcare

ApexPro

Enterprise-wide telemetry

Expanding the power of telemetry.

Telemetry is an important solution for monitoring mobile

patients in today’s healthcare environment. The GE Healthcare

ApexPro* telemetry system helps to ensure that patients are

monitored continuously and that vital patient data is reliably

transferred to the clinician. Together with GE’s comprehensive

suite of mobile, remote and bedside monitoring technologies,

ApexPro helps you deftly manage Clinical Information Logistics*

across the enterprise by delivering information to the critical

point of clinical decision-making.

Exclusive GE technology.

Clinicians rely on continuous monitoring to help them respond faster
to critical situations. ApexPro relies on an exceptional networking
infrastructure that reduces the possibility of transmission interference,
dropout and downtime. Innovative GE technologies such as quad diversity
antennas search four separate antenna fields each second for the
best signal from each patient. The ApexPro infrastructure gives you
the flexibility and scalability to help provide interference-free wireless
transmissions within your specific RF environment.

Backed by GE’s standard of quality and performance, ApexPro helps
enable you to deliver safe, high-quality care across your enterprise.
As part of GE’s comprehensive wireless solution, ApexPro delivers the
relevant clinical intelligence to help caregivers respond to critical
situations faster and work more productively.

The power of reliable coverage.

ApexPro components, from the infrastructure to the
transmitter, have been designed to ensure continuous
monitoring of telemetry patients. A component of the
ApexPro Telemetry system, the CARESCAPE* Telemetry T4
transmitter was designed with a battery life that is longer
than the average inpatient stay of three to four days.
This helps prevent loss of monitoring due to the need for
battery changes and helps to reduce the amount of time
and effort clinicians spend checking battery status.

With a battery life that lasts more than four days (110 hours
typical, without accessories), the CARESCAPE Telemetry T4
transmitter helps eliminate battery changes which can be
disruptive to the clinician and potentially uncomfortable for
the patient. Battery changes, in many cases, can then be
conveniently handled after the patient has been discharged.
With a noticeably longer battery life, hospitals are likely
to see a cost savings on batteries for the CARESCAPE

GE vital signs monitors use exceptional
algorithms, including GE DINAMAP* SuperSTAT*,
Alaris® Turbo Temp® and a selection of SpO2
technologies. The captured measurements are
sent to the central station when a DinaLink cable
is connected to the CARESCAPE Telemetry T4
transmitter.

Telemetry T4 transmitter.

The foundation for clinical quality.

Patient safety and outcomes are among your top priorities.
ApexPro addresses both with exceptional detection and
analysis of patient data to help you monitor your patients’
status more fully and accurately. With ApexPro telemetry,
clinical excellence is never compromised.

• ApexPro uses the GE EK-Pro clinical algorithm, which
processes and analyzes four independent, simultaneous
ECG leads – meeting and exceeding stringent AHA
guidelines. Plus, an innovative Smart Leads Fail feature
significantly reduces false ECG alarms

• With GE EK-Pro, ApexPro supports advanced atrial
fibrillation detection and alarming. Early clinician
identification of AFib may help prevent this arrhythmia
from becoming chronic

• CARESCAPE Telemetry T4 Transmitter has the capability to
monitor two V-leads on each patient . Caregivers can be
vigilant for both arrhythmias and ST-segment changes
through a better picture of the patient’s heart

• The exible design of ApexPro allows each transmitter
to monitor only the parameters each patient requires.
Continuous monitoring of ECG and SpO2, and episodic
monitoring of NIBP and temperature allow caregivers
to tailor monitoring according to the patient’s acuity

Intelligence comes in many forms.

With ApexPro, vital patient details are available through a
variety of information viewing devices to enable constant
vigilance and workflow flexibility. When clinical intelligence
can be accessed in so many convenient ways, caregivers are
empowered to respond quickly to critical situations and take
appropriate action.

CARESCAPE Mobile Viewers* connect patients
and caregivers virtually any time and place by
enabling remote viewing of telemetry information
on laptops, PDAs, Tablet PCs or cell phones.

CARESCAPE CIC Pro central station enables you to
manage patient information gathered from any
patient monitor on the CARESCAPE Network.

In Combination Mode, a Dash* or Solar* monitor
at the bedside can display ApexPro telemetry
waveforms alongside other vital signs, saving
the time and inconvenience of disconnecting
and reconnecting the patient to telemetry. In
Rover Combo Mode, a wireless Dash monitor and
ApexPro telemetry together create a powerful
mobile monitoring solution.

ApexPro can be used effectively for either centralized or decentralized monitoring.
Because telemetry data is accessible enterprise-wide, patients can be placed
flexibly throughout the organization while being monitored with ApexPro. Nurses
are freed to focus on patient care with the confidence that their patients are
receiving continuous, quality monitoring.

Whether you choose centralized or decentralized monitoring, ApexPro can support
your hospital protocol for continuous patient surveillance.

Patient monitoring no longer operates in a silo. Ease of use

and continuous, connective flow of patient data make wireless

patient monitoring simpler and more efficient. ApexPro puts

vital information in caregivers’ hands wherever they are, at the

moment they need it most.

©2011 General Electric Company — All rights reserved.

General Electric Company reserves the right to make
changes in specifications and features shown herein, or
discontinue the product described at any time without
notice or obligation. Contact your GE Representative for
the most current information.

GE and GE Monogram are trademarks of
General Electric Company.

*ApexPro, CARESCAPE, Clinical Information Logistics,
Dash, DINAMAP, Mobile Viewers, Solar and SuperSTAT
are trademarks of General Electric Company.

Alaris and Turbo Temp are registered trademarks of
Alaris Medical Systems, Inc.

GE Medical Systems Information Technologies, Inc.,
a General Electric Company, doing business as
GE Healthcare.

About GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and
services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise
in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics,
patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical
manufacturing technologies, performance improvement and
performance solutions services help our customers to deliver better
care to more people around the world at a lower cost. In addition, we
partner with healthcare leaders, striving to leverage the global policy
change necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable
healthcare systems.

Our “healthymagination” vision for the future invites the world to join
us on our journey as we continuously develop innovations focused on
reducing costs, increasing access and improving quality around the

world. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a unit of

General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare
employees are committed to serving healthcare professionals and their
patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE
Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com.

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