What are medical sensors used for?

An essential part of contemporary practice, medical sensors provide a degree of oversight and insight that is unparalleled in the history of medicine. And with the threat of Covid 19 on our doorstep, rapid analysis and correct care is more important than ever before.

So, how exactly are medical sensors used and what role do they play in the current crisis?

What are medical sensors?                           

Medical-grade sensors are used for monitoring patients in a range of environments. Depending on how they are intended to be deployed, they monitor ongoing or sudden changes in a patient’s body, from biological, chemical, or physiological changes – allowing the results to be monitored and recorded.

Since their invention in the 1970s, sensors have played a key role in the field of medicine. This has allowed for the development of equipment with increased intelligence, allowing for remote care, and highly exacting monitoring for a range of issues – allowing to practitioners to respond with speed and accuracy.

How can they help with the current crisis?

Since the rise of Covid 19, our team at Sensoronics has seen medical sensors become an essential part of tackling the infection. This allows for efficiency, correctness, and increased quality of care when it matters most. Some key ways in which they help include-

Ongoing care: Once a patient has medical sensors applied, practitioners will be able to constantly monitor their vitals, providing 24/7 oversight of their conditions. If their condition worsens, this allows for a rapid response that would simple be impossible without diagnostics in place.

Optimisation: Continuous care allows practitioners to efficiently monitor the status of a patient. If their condition alleviates, this allows them to promptly be given the appropriate level of follow on care, freeing up their place in the system without fear of misdiagnosis or relapse. This also allows for remote monitoring of critical patients at home, making the available time and resources stretch further in moments of crisis.

Effectiveness: Depending on the array of sensors used, carers are able to capture diagnostic information about respiratory and cardiac health and a range of other variables. This allows for constant data capture with little expenditure of effort and full correctness. 

Analytics: Constant capture means practitioners can harvest a wealth of medical data that can be cross correlated to better understand how to treat the virus. This allows us to deepen our understanding of what treatments to deploy and the risk Covid 19 represents and how we need to adjust our approach to meet the challenge.

What next?

If you want to learn more about the role sensor technology can play in the fight against Covid 19, our team are here to help. With years ofexperience providing assistance to the healthcare industry, we work with your teams to provide a fit-for-purpose solution for the healthcare industry with care and efficiency.

You can view our full list of products and services from here. Or if you have any specific questions or concerns about your current setup, please do not hesitate to get in touch directly and let us know exactly what your team needs to help meet this challenge head on.