Hear Dr. Cha describe how the staff at Johns Hopkins monitored complex ECMO patients during the pandemic while finding ways to reduce frontline caregiver risk.

The COVID pandemic resulted in a high incidence of patients with respiratory distress. While the use of mechanical ventilation helped some patients, others experienced acute lung failure, leading to a steady increase in the need for ECMO. The challenge with patients on ECMO is that even the smallest movement can be life-threatening, resulting in the need for constant bedside supervision. Download the full replay to learn more about how staff at Johns Hopkins needed to monitor these complex patients while finding ways to reduce frontline caregiver risk. Discover how they:

• Initiated virtual rounding so providers could monitor patients from offices, conference rooms, and home.
• Augmented bedside staff with an eye-piece camera and microphone to provide an added layer of monitoring support to virtual rounding staff.
• Enabled access to all real-time and retrospective waveform data from the bedside so care teams could remotely automate trends, recognize patterns, plot correlations, and more accurately and quickly assess patients and reduce risk