The History of Patient Monitoring Systems

People have been monitoring the vital signs of others since the dawn of mankind, using various methods to track heart rate, body temperature, respiratory rate, and arterial blood pressures. Glenmed takes a look at how patient monitoring began, how it has evolved over...

Introducing the Philips IntelliVue X3 Patient Monitor

When it comes to moving patients from one section of a medical centre to another, portability of their patient monitor systems will determine how rapidly you are able to do so. Philips have come out with a family of exceptional patient monitoring systems – the Philips...

Ultrasound Technology in South Africa

Medical imaging revolutionised medicine – x-ray in the late 1800s, magnetic resonance imaging in the 1940s, and then ultrasound imaging in the 1970s. Ultrasound now plays a key role in modern medicine but, as might be expected in a country of dualities – ultrasound...

Ultrasound in Developing Countries

Limited access to basic life support technology and ultrasound solutions is an issue many countries of the third world still have to deal with. In an effort to turn this around the United Nations, through its Every Woman Every Child initiative, aims to improve the...