Sonic Healthcare

SCHILLER Australia has been the major supplier of ECG machines and Data Management software to Sonic Healthcare for almost twenty years. Sonic uses a range of ECG machine models and SEMA, (SCHILLER ECG Management and Archiving) software.

Over this period of time many changes have taken place, both with Sonic and SCHILLER. For example, the first ECG machine model to be installed was AT-6 and it used an old DOS based version of SEMA software. Now, after three generations of ECG machine and several software upgrades Sonic now has the most advanced ECG data management system in Australia.

Sonic’s pathology companies right across Australia use the combination of SCHILLER software and machines. They include, Melbourne Pathology, VIC. Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology, NSW, Capital Pathology ACT, Southern IML Pathology, NSW, Barratt and Smith Pathology, NSW and Clinpath, S.A.

AHA and Google, attacking heart disease

To use the American Heart Association heart attack risk assessment, go to the AHA’s risk assessment website http://www.americanheart.org/riskassessment or to the new Google Health website http://www.google.com/health. There, you enter your blood pressure and cholesterol levels, weight, age and other risk factors. You can then export data into your personal health record (PHR) on Google Health.

While taking the heart attack risk assessment, you can also find out if you have metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors that greatly increases the chances of developing cardiovascular disease, including stroke and diabetes.

Those who haven’t taken the risk assessment, but have a PHR on Google Health, can also import data about their risk factors directly into the risk assessment tool and evaluate their risk without re-entering the data.

Personal health information entered into the American Heart Association’s Heart Attack Risk Assessment tool is collected, maintained and disclosed in accordance with the American Heart Association Privacy Policy, which is available here.

Joining forces with Google is one more way for the American Heart Association to reach out and help Americans live longer, healthier lives, free of heart disease and stroke.

ARGUS Pro Transport

Experience the New Freedom in Intensive Care Monitoring!

The ARGUS PRO Transport II is an intensive care monitor which meets the specific needs of clinics and rescue services. The unit provides full performance for bedside and transport, without restrictions regarding the measured parameters. Suitable for Intensive Care Units, Operating theatres, Recovery rooms, Emergency wards, Ground-, and especially Air Rescue Services.

Features:

• Small size and low weight
• Full functionality of the highest capacity Intensive Care Monitoring Systems
• Intuitive user interface via touch screen
• Direct access to all important settings of the shown parameters
• Unlimited number of display configurations can be saved so the display can be adapted to the needs of any monitoring situation
• As a part of the ARGUS PRO System, the ARGUS PRO Transport II can display the data of any other ARGUS PRO monitor within the clinic network

Options:

• Resting ECG and FAX
• Graphical ST analysis
• Systolic blood pressure variation
• Cardiac Output

NRMA Careflight & SCHILLER Australia, saving lives together

The world’s most lightweight emergency patient monitoring system is now aboard the planes and helicopters of NRMA Careflight to better help its staff to save lives.

NRMA Careflight has taken delivery of five of SCHILLER’s mobile ARGUS PRO Lifecare units. Three will be used by Careflight International medical retrieval teams operating across the world from bases in Sydney, Darwin and Perth. Two others are being used on board the helicopters participating in Careflight’s HIRT trial.

SCHILLER Australia managing director Harry Packer said the Argus PRO Life Care unit combines an intensive care patient monitor, defibrillator and transcutaneous pacemaker. It weighs just 2.1kg making it highly portable.

“This unique, lightweight yet powerful device opens up many new horizons in emergency care as well as inter-hospital or in-house patient transfers ,” Mr Packer said.

The unit has already been put to the test by Careflight International on a rescue mission last month involving a man who sustained severe head trauma in Bali.

Careflight’s chief medical officer Dr Alan Garner said there is nothing on the market that compares with it for size, weight and capability.

Dr Garner said savings in weight and size are critical in medical emergencies, particularly for pre-hospital trauma.

“The Schiller Argus Pro Lifecare unit replaces a defibrillator, Capnograph and Propack monitor, saving us valuable space and around 6.5kg,” Dr Garner said.

“Added features such as the alarm functions, 12 lead ECG, Masimo Pulse Oximetry and hot swappable batteries means no other unit gets anywhere near it,” he said.

He said he had received very good feedback from Austrian counterparts who had been using the unit extensively.

Mr Packer said that the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service and Hawkes Bay Rescue Service in New Zealand and Careflight Queensland had also expressed interest in the system.

NRMA CareFlight, a registered charity, is conducting the world’s first randomised clinical trial (HIRT) to evaluate the benefits of rapid response physician care to head injury patients. CareFlight International, the commercial branch of the organisation, provides medical retrieval services anywhere in the world.

SCHILLER Australia supplies a wide range medical equipment including electrocardiographs, long-term ECG and blood pressure recorders, spirometers, medical IT solutions, patient monitors and external defibrillators. It has offices in Newcastle, NSW and Melbourne, Victoria.