Datascope NetGuard

There is no good place to have a heart attack, and no guarantee you will survive, even if you are lucky enough to already be in a hospital. The key to survival and best chance for recovery is a rapid response. The Datascope Patient Monitoring Group recognized a need to identify a cardiac arrhythmia event in patients not typically monitored. The challenge was to create a patient monitoring device that would reliably alert hospital staff, move easily throughout the hospital with the patient and be low cost enough to monitor all patients while in the care of the hospital.



The product required a full system design and engineering approach to carefully consider all tradeoffs in usability, functional performance, site management, and total cost of ownership. Stratos' experience in Patient Monitoring, wireless software development, wearable human factors, and miniaturized electronics provided the expertise to successfully navigate the requirements and meet the project objectives.