Abstract
Patient monitoring is vital to care in operating rooms, emergency rooms,
intensive care units and critical care units. It has proven invaluable for
respiratory therapy, recovery rooms, outpatient care, transport, radiology,
catheterization laboratories and gastroenterology departments, as well as for
ambulatory, home and sleep screening applications. Patient monitoring can
reduce the risk of infection and other complications, and it can assist in
providing for patient comfort. Moreover, patient monitoring products measure,
display and document physiological information obtained at regular intervals
over time from sensors attached to the patient or other input devices. The
qualifier “at regular intervals over time” is used to distinguish patient
monitoring devices from diagnostic kits and devices, which are typically used
once or a few times to diagnose a patient' s condition and/or plan a course of
therapy. Measured parameters include electrocardiogram (ECG), invasive and
noninvasive blood pressure, pulse rate, pulse oximetry, body temperature,
respiration rate, end-tidal CO2 and other specialized parameters. Products
vary from specialized single-parameter instruments to monitors with the
ability to measure multiple parameters and interface with other instruments.
This TriMark Publications report assesses the patient monitoring device market
drivers and bottlenecks from the perspective of medical and manufacturer
communities; discusses the potential benefits of the patient monitoring device
market for various sectors of the medical community; establishes the current
total market size and future growth of the patient monitoring device market
and analyzes the current size and growth of various segments; provides current
and forecasted market shares by the company; provides strategic
recommendations for near-term business opportunities and assesses current
commercial uses of the patient monitoring market.
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