Intersurgical Respi-Check™ Respiratory Rate Monitor

• Complete with sensor and cable

The importance of recording respiratory rate.

Vital signs information influences the patient care decisions of emergency services providers and there is a sound clinical basis in striving for comprehensive and accurate recordings. The respiratory rate is an accurate reflection of severity of illness and if carefully measured is a sensitive marker of accurate respiratory and metabolic dysfunction, especially in the critical care setting.

Primary clinical courses teach the importance of respiratory rate and how to record it and this is reinforced in later training in advanced life support courses. All emphasise that subtle changes in the rate of breathing are highly significant.

Additionally there are many scoring systems used to predict clinical outcome and direct patient care: These include APACHE, SIRS, PTS. Increasingly the most useful of these are the physiological scoring systems and these all include the respiratory rate recording. Without comprehensive and accurate respiratory rate recording they may be invalid or at least misleading.

Current methods of measuring respiratory rate are:

Visually for a full minute – inaccurate and rarely
carried out.

‘Eye balling’ – for such an important physiological
parameter this is patently unsatisfactory.

Auscultated breaths – The gold standard, but not
common practice and accuracy can be compromised by
noise.

Capnography – expensive and often unavailable

ECG – expensive, subject to motion artefacts and has
been shown to be inaccurate in the emergency care
setting.

The need for continuous, non-invasive and reliable
respiratory rate monitoring has long been recognised.

The solution

The Respi-Check Respiratory Rate Monitor has been designed to fulfil these needs and is suitable for use with adults and large children. This electronic monitor utilises an infrared sensor that clips to the breathing indicator of the Respi-Check mask.

Respiratory rate is continuously measured and shown on the digital display. Preset audible and visual alarms are activated if no breaths are detected for 10 seconds and this acts as a rapid apnoea alarm:

Additional alarms activate if the sensor cable becomes disconnected:

…and when the battery needs replacing:

During exhalation the flow of oxygen in the tube keeps the ball at the top of the tube.

As inspiration commences the ball moves to the middle of the tube, interrupts the infrared beam, sensing a breath.

At the end of inspiration the ball returns to the top of the tube.

Connects to standard Respi-Check masks
Suitable for nose or mouth breathing patients

Accurate
Readings you can depend on

Portability, battery operated
Can travel with the patient

Continuous use
Real time, visual information of the patient’s breathing

Integral audible and visual alarms
Provides a continuous visual confirmation of correct mask fit and therefore of correct inspired oxygen