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Ventilator alerts delivered through nurse call system

John Evans, Wandsworth Healthcare, explains how the company delivered a reliable alarm system for a surgical ward at Basildon University Hospital in Essex to instantly alert hospital staff to ventilator failure, removal, or misuse.

John Evans, Sales manager, East Anglia, at designer, developer, and manufacturer of nurse call systems, Wandsworth Healthcare, explains how the company delivered a reliable alarm system for the Burstead Ward for colorectal, vascular, and urology surgery at Basildon University Hospital in Essex that would instantly alert hospital staff to ventilator failure, removal, or misuse, to effectively safeguard patients.

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to put hospitals, healthcare staff, and medical resources under extreme duress. With staff and critical resources so thinly spread across healthcare facilities, and intensive care wards full to capacity with patients, the healthcare sector is faced with several unique and daunting challenges. According to NHS hospital activity data, an estimated 292 patients known to have COVID-19 from the previous 24 hours were admitted to hospitals in London on 5 February 2021, including patients diagnosed in the previous 24 hours – with 262 of these admissions in London firsttime cases of COVID-19, indicating that at the time, the spread of the virus and subsequent strain on the UK’s healthcare staff were showing little signs of slowing. 

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