25 Efficia Cardiac Monitors for CHI at Temple Street
In 2021, donations enabled Children’s Health Foundation to fund the purchase of 25 Efficia Cardiac Monitors for St. Brigid’s and St. Gabriel’s Ward in Children’s Health Ireland at Temple Street. The Efficia CM 100 patient monitor helps monitoring, analysing, recording, and alarming multiple physiological parameters including Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, Respiratory Rate and Oxygen Saturations for paediatric and neonatal patients. Monitoring a patient’s vital signs is an essential part of providing safe effective care to children while in hospital.
The monitors can be secured at the patient’s bed side to monitor a child’s vital signs intermittently or on a continuous basis. These monitors can also be transported on a trolley / cot / incubator if the patients require transportation to another part of the hospital for example ICU, Theatre, Radiology. The monitor can assist staff in assessing a child’s condition and the monitor alarms will alert a nurse if there is a change in vital signs outside a set parameter. This is vital when monitoring a child in the post-operative phase, a deteriorating child, or a
patient acutely unwell.