Healthcare Innovation July 23, 2024
David Raths

FloPatch designed to give ICU clinicians a fast, hands-free method of assessing blood-flow at the bedside to help guide cardiopulmonary resuscitation and fluid management in critically ill patients

Sutter Health, a nonprofit integrated health system based in Northern California, is implementing a wireless, wearable Doppler ultrasound device called FloPatch that gives ICU clinicians a fast, hands-free method of assessing blood-flow at the bedside to help guide cardiopulmonary resuscitation and fluid management in critically ill patients.

Determining how much or how little intravenous (IV) fluid to give a patient is one of the most urgent, complicated and error-prone interventions in critical care. The goal with FloPatch is to provide a simple, fast and consistent method for measuring changes in blood flow...

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