Serving Med-Surg
At the Intersection of Insight and Intervention
In Medical Surgical (Med-Surg) units, every moment you spend with patients counts. As part of Baxter, we’re here to help you connect each of those moments of care with actionable insights and efficient workflows.
Connect Care Teams
When workloads rise, efficient communication becomes even more critical. In addition to reducing burdens for clinicians, hospitals that adopt clinical communications applications have seen significant improvements in time savings, accuracy and clinical workflows.
With unified clinical communications, you can spend more time where it counts — at the bedside.
Reduce Alarm Fatigue
Without the right context and coordination, alarms can add more noise than knowledge.
What if you could cut through the noise and elevate what’s urgent? We help you do it with clinical communication solutions that reduce cognitive burden while connecting your care teams to your patients — and each other.
Reduce Manual Data Entry
Your care teams need timely patient vital signs to inform the best clinical decisions. But is manual entry into the EMR presenting an avoidable obstacle?
Save valuable time and reduce the potential for errors. Our connected patient monitors and medical device integrations automate data entry, then deliver the patient data you need, where and when you need it for charting and clinical use — from the EMR to the palm of your hand.
Detect Signs of Deterioration
Warning signs can be identified 6-8 hours before a critical event.1 With continuous monitoring of heart rate, respiratory rate and other vital signs, we help you spot them sooner, so you can intervene earlier.
Reduce Hospital-Associated Infections
Infection control is top of mind in med-surg units everywhere — and for good reason.
Now you can keep a watchful eye while reducing risk. Help limit potential infection exposure with dedicated devices and accessories — and help identify signs of HAIs at the earliest indications — with continuous monitoring where you need it.
Reduce Falls
We prioritize falls prevention in so many of our products to help you:
- Monitor bed states
- Automate bed exit alerts based on patient fall risk status in the EMR
- Suspend and re-arm bed exit alerts based on caregiver presence
- And much more
From smart beds to clinical communications to safe patient handling equipment, we design our solutions to help patients mobilize safely and reduce their risk of falls.
Featured Solutions:
Reduce Pressure Injuries
The negative impacts of pressure injuries on patients cannot be understated — and their impacts on healthcare spending are equally jarring.
Pressure injuries are pervasive and urgent issues, but they’re also preventable. To better protect your patients’ skin — and their outcomes — look to your surfaces.
Improve Staff Safety with Real-Time Precision Locating
Violence against clinicians has long been a pressing concern for the healthcare industry – with violence in healthcare about four times more prevalent than in any other industry.2 The right technologies can help support a safer environment.
Duress Buttons
Alert the right response teams to unsafe scenarios at the touch of a button
Real-Time Staff Locating
Further improve safety by tracking staff locations for quicker responses to duress alerts
Count on precise locating and easy-to-use duress alarms to help you protect your teams.
Protect Clinicians with Safe Patient Handling
We believe safety and mobility should go hand in hand — and that applies to clinicians as well as patients. Our safe patient handling solutions can help you safely mobilize patients without risking injury or requiring more clinicians than necessary. Our safe patient handling solutions include:
Overhead Lifts
Always at hand to help you mobilize patients safely and easily
Mobile Lifts
To bring safe patient handling support wherever you need it
Slings and Accessories
To best support each unique patient and environment
Protect your clinicians while they protect your patients. Our safe patient handling solutions can help.
Explore How We’re Connecting Every Moment of Care in Med-Surg
Smart Beds & Surfaces
Elevate your patient care with smart bed technology from Centrella, Progressa, Envella and more. Using smart hospital beds in your facility can enable patient recovery, improve caregiver response time and heighten patient safety.
Patient Monitoring
Whether you a monitoring patients remotely or at the bedside, you'll find the necessary patient monitoring devices and equipment here. Explore continuous monitoring, remote patient monitoring and vital signs monitoring solutions that you can implement in your hospital today.
Care Communications
Empower your hospital staff with connected clinical care communications solutions from Hillrom. Easily communicate across hospital roles along with patients and their families using Voalte Platform solutions. For caregivers, connect your Nurse Call systems, Alert & Alarm management, and smart beds all within one convenient platform. For IT staff, the Hillrom RTLS solution is second to none when it comes to troubleshooting hospital beds and managing your critical care devices.
Safe Patient Handling & Mobility
Utilize patient lifts such sit to stand and overhead lifts to safely transition your patients into their new position with ease. Versatile hospital transport stretchers can make all the difference when transporting trauma and surgical patients to their new destination. Find everything you need for patient mobility here.
Non-Invasive Respiratory Therapy
We’re innovating to help patients breathe easier wherever they are—by mobilizing secretions, simplifying ventilation and addressing other pulmonary issues.
Diagnostic Cardiology
Experience simple, secure and connected workflows with accurate solutions that help you reduce complexity and shorten the path to diagnosis.
Physical Exam & Diagnostics
Rely on our Welch Allyn® diagnostic solutions to help you shorten the path from detection to diagnosis and treatment and improve your productivity—with patient outcomes in mind.
Healthcare Furniture
Providing the right healthcare furniture in your hospital can create a memorable experience for your visitors and patients. Explore options from overbed tables to sleeper sofas and recliners that provide convenience and elevate experience in the hospital room.
Trending Topics
Dive into some of our latest educational resources.
Keeping Patients Safe
Learn how our solutions are used to protect patient safety by helping to detect deterioration, prevent pressure injuries and more.
Whitepaper: The Current State of the Nursing Shortage in the US
Dig into factors contributing to the current nursing shortage, and explore a model comparing today’s challenges to those seen in the past.
Violence Against Healthcare Workers: How Can We Do Better?
Hear from Baxter’s own Whitney Lloyd, along with Jennifer Schmitz, Chief Nursing Officer at SMHC, as they discuss how technology can change the way we address violence in the healthcare workplace.
Don’t Miss an Insight
Explore the latest research to help you transform care across your organization.
Therapy Rental Solutions
In med surg, you may never know what the day has in store. But with the right partner, you can be ready for it. That’s why we offer rental of Hillrom beds and stretchers — backed by the service, training and financial planning you need to maximize your value and be ready for anything.
The Equipment You Need, Backed by Support You Can Trust
We’re more than a medical device manufacturer. We’re passionate team players devoted to supporting healthcare professionals like you. Whether you need equipment maintenance & repair, replacement parts or even remote device management, we’re here to help make your job easier — so you can focus on your patients.
References:
- Ben-Ari, J., Zimlichman, E., Adi, N., & Sorkine, P. (2010). Contactless respiratory and heart rate monitoring: validation of an innovative tool. Journal of medical engineering & technology, 34(7-8), 393-398.
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (2015, December). Home | occupational safety and health administration. OSHA. Retrieved March 17, 2023, from https://www.osha.gov/sites/de fault/files/OSHA3826.pdf.