seca stands behind you to combat COVID-19

In the midst of the current circumstances we face with COVID-19 the health and safety of medical providers at point of care is a central priority. Guidance is clear that protocols of physical distancing and less in-person interactions are crucial to overcome this pandemic.

Fortunately, we are able to extend the opportunity to learn more about products that speak directly to these guidelines by offering solutions to the question: “How can we make patient encounters safer for medical personnel when weighing and measuring patients”?

As COVID-19 propels heightened pressures and increased patient volumes in ER departments and hospitals, it’s essential to have medically-validated scales and measuring systems at clinician’s fingertips.

Case in point: medical products from seca are providing vital parameters that have a direct relation to the treatment of the disease in frontline care. Precise patient total body weight measurements are used as a basis for a necessary part of the calculations of tidal volume used for ventilators, and dosing of anesthetics and blood pressure medications for ventilated patients who are in critical courses of the COVID-19 disease.

Touch-free scales
and height
measurement
devices help keep
nurses safe

Medical scales play a crucial role at patient intake

Innovative scales and measuring stations recently introduced by seca are poised to play a crucial role at patient intake where physical distancing, or simply a rapid, efficient workflow to handle large volumes of patients are needed. Some examples:

• seca Scale-up Line provides two variations of medical scales conveniently mobile and optionally equipped with both ultrasonic height measurement and ergonomic handrail and can be configured to provide voice guidance for patients. The EMR-validated ultrasonic measuring station with ID-Display and handrail configuration is ideal for hospitals and points of care that see ambulatory care patients who need standing aids like handrails and/ or perhaps a larger base to accommodate them. In terms of scales these models are cutting-edge solutions for the need of automated, hands-free measurements for clinician safety during times of heightened infectious concern.
• The seca 286 EMR-validated ultrasonic measuring station: The seca 286 EMR-validated ultrasonic measuring station features voice guidance that annunciates brief, clear instructions that guide patients through the measurement procedure and audibly report patient height and weight measurements aloud (several languages are available and easily selected in device settings). Nursing staff can easily remain 6 feet or more from patients being weighed on the scale and obtain height measurements without touching or standing directly next to patient or scale.