Physician
As a physician working in obstetrics, your expert opinion and timely actions are in high demand night and day. In order to exercise your best judgment, you need the most important and latest patient information at your fingertips at all times. CALM's advanced system is there to quickly and efficiently present you with the information you need, when you need it – allowing you to provide the best care.
How?
- Get the information you need quickly. CALM allows you to personalize your patient views - allowing you to get to the information you need fast.
- Ensure completeness and accuracy of information. CALM enables you and your team members to enter and/or review important patient data at the bedside as events occur, enabling you to have all the important facts.
- Take advantage of CALM Curve™'s integrated knowledge at the point of decision. CALM aids in proactively identifying labor dystocia. Through the CALM Curve OB Guidance tool™ you obtain a continuous assessment of the mother's labor progress, allowing you to clearly define when she has fallen outside normal limits of labor based on medical and hospital guidelines.
- See the effectiveness of your actions. CALM Curve graphically plots the progress of your patient as each new pelvic exam is entered, comparing it to the mean and outer limits of a reference population. This feedback on the impact of your interventions allows you to adapt your course of action as needed.
The nature of your practice keeps you on the move. Making rounds, seeing patients at your office, researching and teaching are all part of your day. To help you stay in contact with laboring patients, CALM provides full access to the latest patient data wherever you are.
How?
- Keep track of patient's status and update patient charts no matter where you are. Patient views and information entered into CALM can be securely available to you from patient bedside, workstation, staff lounge or remotely, from your office or home.
- Monitor several patients at once through CALM's central monitoring capabilities. CALM provides multiple types of views (beds and fetal tracings) all in a single screen, enabling you to view the status of all your patients and quickly identify a patient in need.
- Request a remote consultation from a specialist or provide assistance to a colleague: through a secure and regulated web access. Review all pertinent patient information and document your recommendations directly on the patient record.
Your OB specialty is one of the most highly litigated in medicine. Judgments can be in the millions of dollars and malpractice insurance premiums continue to rise. Your patients' expectations are of giving birth to a perfectly healthy baby every time. Even an excellent obstetrician with a perfect track record faces the possibility of litigation. This risk is so great, in fact, that some of your colleagues have left the specialty.
What support is available to reduce your risk? CALM can help in several areas.
How?
- Improve timely diagnosis of labor dystocia. By employing the CALM Curve, you and your team obtain a continuous assessment of the mother's labor progress, allowing you to clearly define when she has fallen outside normal limits of labor based on pre-defined hospital and medical guidelines.
- Measure fetal heart rate patterns using a rule-based system to better identify the fetus at risk for brain injury from oxygen deprivation. Using CALM Patterns™, you can detect and measure features in fetal heart rate recordings, including baseline, accelerations, decelerations and variability. In turn, the software classifies the FHR patterns into different risk categories based on selected standards.
- Identify patients at risk of shoulder dystocia, before the onset of labor. By using CALM Shoulder Screen™, you can assess the risk of shoulder dystocia with injury from 37 weeks of gestation onward and discuss the recommended plan of action with your patient.
- Improve team communication by using a common vocabulary for patient evaluations during labor. CALM provides you and your team with a standard and agreed upon means of interpreting and communicating labor dystocia, fetal heart rate patterns, and risk of shoulder dystocia using graphical displays and numerical data - allowing team members to quickly and confidently take action when it is needed.
- See the effectiveness of your actions. CALM graphically plots the progress of your patient, comparing her to the mean and outer limits of a reference population. This feedback on the impact of your interventions allows you to adapt your course of action as needed.
- Improve communication with patients. CALM provides a quick and easy way to demonstrate progress or risk to patients through its simple visual aids, allowing you or your team members to efficiently discuss necessary interventions.
- Ensure that data is complete, accurate, legible and available. CALM ensures proper documentation and compliance with best practices by prompting users to enter information - eliminating issues of illegible handwriting, lost documents and information ownership. CALM's archiving capabilities ensure the information will be stored and available based on your hospital's guidelines.
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