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Launch of Internet Training System
Medica Fair in Germany
British
Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society Conference
K2 Medical Systems Road shows
From the heart
£2 million grant awarded
K2 Launches Internet version of Training System
The Internet Version gives world wide access to the Training System,
so users can access from work or from home. The benefits of the new version of the training system include access anywhere, hospital, community offices or at home with no requirement of a server for networking - just a PC with internet access. It will also reduce the administration role and all upgrades of the training system will automatically be carried out by us with no further need for IT involvement as we host the server.
MEDICA and ComPaMED Fair in
Düsseldorf November 2005.
K2 Medical Systems attended the world's largest medical fair in Düsseldorf. Here we presented all of our products. As a special feature this included the K2MS Guardian™ electronic patient record system and K2MS Platform™ bedside hardware.
British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society Conference April 2005
K2 Medical Systems will be attending this year's BMFM meeting where we will be presenting all our products. As a special feature this will include the K2MS Guardian™ electronic patient record system and K2MS Platform™ bedside hardware.
10th Annual Conference, The East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham. 14th - 15th April 2005
K2 Medical Systems Road shows
Delivering Clinical Governance During Childbirth
Avoidable human errors, patient dissatisfaction and mounting litigation have led to CNST and Governance. We all accept improvement is necessary but it is one thing to recognise it and quite another to effect it
K2 Medical Systems and the Plymouth Perinatal Research Group have been working to improve patient care during childbirth since 1989. We have developed IT software and hardware solutions that include:
- Electronic patient record for labour. Facilitating archival, audit and real time communication of clinical data around the hospital network and to clinicians at home, including cardiotocograms, partograms, observations and interventions. All data is authenticated using finger print recognition, which is medico-legally robust.
- Computer based training for midwives and doctors, which provides training in fetal monitoring. Now installed in over 85% of all UK hospitals.
- Objective Perinatal outcome assessment. Use of umbilical cord blood gas analysis to assess the infants's condition at birth.
Together, the above systems can facilitate Governance in this most important of clinical areas.
To demonstrate the systems a series of road shows took place around the UK.
If you would like any further information then please contact us by telephoning the
contact numbers below or emailing us here:
enquiries@k2ms.com
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From the heart
Pictured at the presentation of K2 are from left to right Mr Charles Cox, Daniela Granata, Marie Davis, Jenny Henry, Simon Jenkinson, Nick Piercey and Baby Lifeline’s Clive Skelhon.
Local radio DJ Nick Piercey has handed over a state-of-the-art computer package to Maternity which trains staff in interpreting the heartbeat of unborn babies. The K2 CTG software (worth in excess of £10,000 has been funded by Heart FM) is the station's latest charity project through the Baby Lifeline charity and is already proving beneficial to midwifery and medical staff at the Trust to develop and help improve their knowledge and skills. Acting Head of Midwifery, Jenny Henry, has been instrumental in obtaining Heart FM and Baby Lifeline's support and is delighted with the new training program which will bring benefits to both staff and patients at New Cross.
"We are very lucky to have been given this useful package which allows both midwives and doctors to update their knowledge in the interpretation of CTG's (Cardiotocographs) at any time, night or day. It is mandatory that all maternity staff across the country carry out six-monthly updates in CTG interpretation which consists of formal training sessions, drop in workshops and now in New Cross, K2" said Jenny. Cardiotocographs are the printout from a machine of the baby's heartbeat which midwives use during labour. It monitors the well-being of the baby and it is this printout that the midwives and doctors have to analyse.
By kind permission of Trust Talk - The monthly newspaper of The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust.
Photograph supplied by the Department of Medical Illustration, New Cross Hospital
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£2 million grant awarded
Excerpt from BBC News Online 31/05/01
A computer system which helps doctors assess the condition of unborn babies during labour could become available nationwide. A £2m grant from the Medical Research Council will allow the fetal monitoring project to be tested nationwide after successful trials in Plymouth.
During labour, babies can become distressed, requiring immediate Caesarian delivery, and their hearts are monitored to spot signs of this. If the babies are not delivered quickly once they get into trouble, they can die or suffer disability. The Plymouth system takes this one step further - not only is heart beat recorded, but a computer compares it to those of thousands of other fetuses monitored over a 10 year period.
This way, patterns can be compared for more clues that the baby is at risk. It helps less experienced doctors - who often find themselves confronted with difficult births - to make sound decisions about when to call for an emergency Caesarian.
The grant will allow national clinical trials to be carried out at six hospitals, involving 35,000 deliveries.
Professor Keith Greene, an obstetrician from Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, who together with software engineer Dr Robert Keith, said he was delighted with the money. He said: "Our system is designed to make labour safer for mother and baby and to reduce the number of babies born brain damaged or still-born because of human error".
"For midwives and junior doctors, it's like having a consultant obstetrician permanently on hand for advice and help in decision making when things start to go wrong".
The pilot trial in Plymouth found that the system was as expert as three expert obstetricians - and made some correct decisions which had actually not happened in real life. The equipment will be introduced in the trial centres early next year.