PCD Alerts: The Importance of Quick and Reliable Delivery
In today’s hospital environment, PCDs continually detect life-threatening medical conditions and issue alarmes that must be acted on by busy staff who may be already engaged in other critical interventions. Confirmation is essential, and Response paging is a simple, reliable, and high-performance method to notify personnel under these conditions. A response paging system transmits a PCD alarm as a single, high-power digital broadcast to one or more small pager-like devices. These pagers then confirm receipt of the message, confirm that the user has read the messages, and then allow the user to optionally indicate their intent and ability to respond with a 2-3 additional button presses. This system does not rely on Wi-Fi, cell phone, or downloadable applications, and it does not suffer from dead spots or unexpected interference. It also does not burden clinical personnel with extra work related to carrying, configuring, and using these devices. NO other critical alerting system approaches the speed, assurance, and reliability, or efficiency of response paging.