Day One Medical Announces Connectivity
of CNS Monitor
with Blanketrol Hyper-Hypothermia
System
Ambler, PA – October 19,
2009 – Day One Medical has announced the development
of an interface for the Component Neuromonitoring System™ (CNS Monitor) to
collect temperature data from the Blanketrol® III hyper-hypothermia system. The Blanketrol III, sold by Cincinnati Sub
Zero, Inc., can be used to provide whole-body therapeutic hypothermia for
patient populations such as newborns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE)
and adults who have suffered a cardiac arrest.
Therapeutic hypothermia is a treatment where a patient’s body temperature
is lowered for the purpose of protecting brain function.
With this new interface, the CNS Monitor can collect the
temperature information available from the Blanketrol system, including its
water temperature, set point temperature, and patient core temperature. These temperatures are stored simultaneously
with other data collected by the CNS Monitor, such as standard vital signs and
neurological measurements.
“By integrating the temperatures of the Blanketrol III with EEG
and cardio-respiratory vital signs into the CNS Monitor, we will have the
capacity to observe in a single ‘snapshot’ view all of the pertinent physiologic
parameters and record those parameters in a time-synchronized fashion,” says
Dr. Noah Cook, a neonatologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “The implications of this streamlined
monitoring are enormous; I expect it will allow us to better understand the
impact of temperature changes on other physiologic functions, and will provide
the substrate for a multitude of potential analyses.”
Additionally, “I believe it will improve the accuracy of our
bedside vital-sign data and reduce workload for our bedside nurses, who
currently are recording water and patient core temperatures by hand,” stated
Dr. Cook. “In all, I believe this
technology will have the potential to greatly improve our clinical care of HIE
patients and others within intensive care.”
About the CNS Monitor
& Day One Medical
The Component Neuromonitoring System (CNS Monitor) is a
portable neurological data collection system.
It can directly record EEG and patient video, and can connect to a
variety of monitoring systems to collect, store, and display vital signs and other
available measurements.
The CNS Monitor was developed by Moberg Research, Inc. and
is available for neonatal care applications through Day One Medical, LLC. Moberg Research performs research, product
development, and services in the areas of neurological monitoring, informatics,
and medical education. Day One Medical
provides products for neonatal care and brain assessment and is an affiliate of
Moberg Research, Inc.
The Component Neuromonitoring System is a trademark of
Moberg Research, Inc. All other
trademarks, service marks and company names are the property of their
respective owners.
For more information, please contact:
Day One Medical, LLC
(215) 283-0860