Medical need:
6% of all hospital admissions are due to unexplained syncope and falls. Huge amounts of money are spent on these patients to diagnose the underlying cause of these syncopes. (Computer tomography of the heart, NMR, implantable loop recorder, 24 hour ECG, 24 hour BP, 24 hour EEG, carotid sonography, angiography, etc.)
Thus, a profound, simple and cheap assessment of syncope is required. State-of-the-art syncope assessment is performed with the help of a "Tilt Table" and requires continuous monitoring of hemodynamics.
During the tilt table test, an analysis of the patient's hemodynamic function is performed since the short-term evaluation of cardiovascular disturbances indicates the underlying (dys-)function. Standard auscultatory or oscillometric sphygmomanometers take about one minute of measurement time - short term disturbances in hemodynamics can not be tracked. The same is true for the above mentioned diagnostic methods.
Solution:
The devices developed by CNSystems enable continuous blood pressure measurement without any interruptions, even in syncopal situations caused by profound hypotension.
The Task Force® Monitor is the "state-of-the-art" solution which provides all relevant hemodynamic parameters completely synchronized. International Guidelines from the ESC recommend the monitoring of continuous, noninvasive blood pressure and 3 lead ECG, and require reports including ECG-paper. The Task Force® Monitor meets these guideline requirements and provides additional parameters for the assessment of autonomic function. Read here how special indicators help to investigate syncope.
Full hemodynamic assessment:
- high resolution 6-channel-ECG
- continuous noninvasive arterial blood pressure
- continuous noninvasive cardiac output and stroke volume
- total peripheral resistance
Autoregulation of blood pressure:
Customized syncope software and report generation:
- diagnostic tools, i.e. callipers to measure drop in heart rate and blood pressure
- advanced print reports including ECG paper
- data export: ASCII Text, MS-Excel®, Matlab®
The CNAP® Monitor 500 targets hospitals and doctors with a limited budget as an attractive alternative to the Task Force® Monitor:
- continuous noninvasive arterial blood pressure
- calibrated blood pressure using integrated NiBP
- guideline conforming assessment of syncope in combination with an external ECG device
- integrated thermal printer for basic documentation
Benefit:
The continuous noninvasive monitoring of blood pressure is the essential parameter to diagnose patients with syncope. In combination with the noninvasive monitoring of cardiac output, physicians gain high quality physiological information at no risk for the patient.
A customized syncope software with the Task Force® Monitor ensures the ease of use for clinicians when studying patients with syncope, featuring diagnostic tools and advanced print reports for each case.
Devices designed for syncope assessment:
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