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Turkey hospital adopts Masimo’s non-invasive technology

NEUCHÂTEL, Switzerland, July 2, 2015

Masimo, a leader in innovative non-invasive monitoring technologies, said that Turgut Ozal Medical Centre Liver Hospital in Malatya, Turkey, has installed its non-invasive, continuous haemoglobin (SpHb) technology to monitor surgical patients.

SpHb is a breakthrough measurement that non-invasively and continuously measures total haemoglobin in the blood, and offers real-time visibility to changes – or lack of changes – in haemoglobin between invasive blood sampling, said a statement.

The laboratory haemoglobin values are only available intermittently and are often delayed. Clinicians can estimate blood loss, but this can both overstate and understate actual blood loss, it said.

Dr Hüseyin İlksen Toprak, anaesthesiologist at Turgut Ozal Medical Centre, said: “In many cases with severe bleeding during liver transplantation, we had to do the blood transfusion on the patient without having the opportunity to send a sample or the time required to obtain the results.

“Sometimes, the amount of blood transfused exceeded that required by the patient. However, today, thanks to routine SpHb monitoring, I am able to immediately visualise both the level of bleeding and the therapeutic effect.”

SpHb monitoring may provide additional insight between invasive blood sampling when the SpHb trend is stable and the clinician may otherwise think haemoglobin is dropping; is rising and the clinician may otherwise think haemoglobin is not rising fast enough; and is dropping and the clinician may otherwise think haemoglobin is stable.

Joe Kiani, founder and chief executive officer, Masimo, said: “In the area of liver transplantation, Turgut Ozal Medical Centre is recognised as one of the top five hospitals in the world.

“Their hospital was designed to be one of the most modern in the country. They had already been using our SET Measure-Through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry. We are happy to see them adopt SpHb technology through Masimo’s Root patient monitoring and connectivity platform.”

The medical centre, which is in the campus of the Inonu University, has 16 floors, 1,024 beds, 31 services, 12 intensive care units and 26 operating rooms.

In addition to liver transplants, the medical centre also handles kidney transplants, bone marrow transplants and burn injuries. - TradeArabia News Service




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