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FULLY AWARE: How RescueNet Link Manages All That Information There's a lot of information coming at you during patient care, and it can be hard to take it all in. Yet your patient's welfare depends upon your obtaining, assessing, monitoring and contextualizing these torrents of data to deliver appropriate care. The goal of ZOLL's RescueNet® Link is to integrate data and help users utilize key elements of patient information quickly and easily. It seamlessly links data from the company's monitor-defi brillators, RescueNet® RescueNet® Navigator onboard mobile computer for mapping, routing and dispatch connectivity. "In the ambulance environment, there's a lot of data generated, but it's all in different places and available at different times," explains Amy Mach- acek Smith, ZOLL's Director of Data Integration. "The premise behind RescueNet Link is creating situational aware- ness in the back of the ambu- lance, such that all the data being generated is available in one location, presented in a meaningful way, and crews can use it to make decisions about patient care without having to connect data pieces and resources." That's all automatically accomplished and virtually invisible. The only interaction RescueNet Link requires is at the beginning of the shift, when technology takes it from there, automatically "listening for" the indicated devices as they turn on, return to the ambulance or have something to say. Everything is visible on a large display in the back of the ambulance that can be viewed at the same time by ED staff. This is the fi rst time hospital and prehos- pital operations have been joined with a single system providing real-time access to clinical and incident information. the provider selects the devices to be used from an electronic checklist. ZOLL's patent-pending Sense 'n Sync™ RescueNet Link has been approved by the FDA and is now available for sale in the United States. For more, see www.zolldata.com/rescuenet-link. Supplement to EMS World FASTER CARE WHEN IT'S CRITICAL: RescueNet 12-Lead Of those critical instances in EMS when time really matters, STEMIs are near the top. With ST-elevation myocardial infarctions, today's best guid- ance suggests an interval of no more than 90 minutes from ED arrival (door) to cardiac catheterization (balloon). ePCR patient care reporting program and That means the earlier you can identify a STEMI and inform ED personnel of an incoming patient in need of percutaneous coronary intervention, the more time they'll have to prepare before that patient's arrival. This shaves precious minutes from that D2B measure. But it requires simple, fast and reliable tools in the fi eld. ZOLL's RescueNet® 12-Lead brings mobile computing to the 12-lead ECG acquisition and transmission process. It lets users receive and manage 12-leads from virtually anywhere using any combination of computer, tablet or hand-held devices, e-mail and fax. Its open architecture enables inte- gration with any 12-lead ECG monitor, and sending ECGs quickly ahead to personnel in the ED and cath lab. "All of our ambulances are hotspots, so we're able to send all this information right through our hotspot and on to the hospital," says Mark Swanson, EMS Clinical Services Manager for Flori- da's Volusia County. "It's very quick. From the moment it shows up on the screen, you hit the button, and it's basi- cally at the hospital." Once the 12-lead ECG is in the system, it's automatically distributed, based on user confi guration, to those who need to see it. Remote viewers like physicians and cath lab team members can receive diagnostic-quality images anywhere, along with interpretation and other key measurements. They can add to the patient record later as care progresses. There's no cost for EMS to transmit into RescueNet 12-Lead, no matter how many monitor/defi brillators they use, and there's no cost to hospitals for receiving, distributing, archiving or exporting data. Because RescueNet 12-Lead is hosted, it requires no complex IT involvement. All data is encrypted and password-protected, making it fully compliant with privacy requirements. And it's scalable to any size system. "It's something that's easily accessible to anyone, large or small," says Smith. "Because of the hosted nature, it allows an easy implemen- tation for systems that want to get up and running right away." ©2012 ZOLL Medical Corp. All rights reserved. CPR Dashboard, Real CPR Help, RescueNet, See-Thru CPR, Sense 'n Sync, Stat-padz, SurePower, X Series and ZOLL are trademarks or registered trademarks of ZOLL Medical Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Propaq, SmartCuf and Sure BP are registered trademarks of Welch Allyn. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.