Makati Medical Center will probably be my home for one week in July when we finally get the installation rolling by then. Two weeks ago, I made a preliminary site visit to MMC's 2nd floor ICU / CCU. I took pictures of the initial layout. The picture on the left is what it looks like now on one ICU room. The monitor on the left is a very old Siemens patient monitor. It's been there almost ten years now and sadly, like most technologies, things like these must be replaced. The newer breed of monitors are much more capable, versatile, and intelligent when it comes to monitoring patient's vital signs, like ECG. We will be replacing them with these babies,
Philips Mp20, not only do they look better, they function better. It's like getting finally your old Nokia 5110 replaced with a Nokia N70. It's just interesting that, the same bracket that holds the monitor on the wall is exactly the same one we will be installing.. like using the same old holster for your cellphone.
And like a client server network set-up, the bedside monitors are connected to one or two remote central monitors from which data can be viewed and retrieved. The picture on the left shows the current Siemens central station. They are the two similar monitors on the right. The right one is a separate small monitoring network by G.E. Medical. And the Siemens central stations will be replaced by Philips' version of the central monitor using relatively common and cheap computer hardware (and obscenely expensive monitoring software).
And just this morning, we made a more intensive site inspection of the place. MMC ICU's ceiling is made up of (I think) asbestos panels that are held in place by metal braces and gravity. So you can push one panel up to reveal the cheese filling inside. A hellfire and brimstone, post-apocalyptic cheese filling. The view from up there looks like a scene from a disaster documentary or the future world from the Terminator movies. Just kidding. It's a mess up there, but it's probably tamer than the holocaust in our houses we call bedrooms. LOL! The image on the right is an access hole where data and electric cables are punched through across walls on top of the ceiling. And from what I've observed, we'll be inserting our own pipes through that hole. O.O;; *sweatdrop*
Just to end this entry on a high note. After we returned a borrowed flashlight to the hospital's engineering department.. I caught sight of this beautiful thing offered in front of a religious image on the 9th floor and took a snapshot. If anyone wants a 4MP unedited shot of the picture on the right, give me a holler! This entry definitely will get an update by early August.
Makati Medical Center will probably be my home for one week in July when we finally get the installation rolling by then. Two weeks ago, I made a preliminary site visit to MMC's 2nd floor ICU / CCU. I took pictures of the initial layout. The picture on the left is what it looks like now on one ICU room. The monitor on the left is a very old Siemens patient monitor. It's been there almost ten years now and sadly, like most technologies, things like these must be replaced. The newer breed of monitors are much more capable, versatile, and intelligent when it comes to monitoring patient's vital signs, like ECG. We will be replacing them with these babies, Philips Mp20, not only do they look better, they function better. It's like getting finally your old Nokia 5110 replaced with a Nokia N70. It's just interesting that, the same bracket that holds the monitor on the wall is exactly the same one we will be installing.. like using the same old holster for your cellphone.
And like a client server network set-up, the bedside monitors are connected to one or two remote central monitors from which data can be viewed and retrieved. The picture on the left shows the current Siemens central station. They are the two similar monitors on the right. The right one is a separate small monitoring network by G.E. Medical. And the Siemens central stations will be replaced by Philips' version of the central monitor using relatively common and cheap computer hardware (and obscenely expensive monitoring software).
And just this morning, we made a more intensive site inspection of the place. MMC ICU's ceiling is made up of (I think) asbestos panels that are held in place by metal braces and gravity. So you can push one panel up to reveal the cheese filling inside. A hellfire and brimstone, post-apocalyptic cheese filling. The view from up there looks like a scene from a disaster documentary or the future world from the Terminator movies. Just kidding. It's a mess up there, but it's probably tamer than the holocaust in our houses we call bedrooms. LOL! The image on the right is an access hole where data and electric cables are punched through across walls on top of the ceiling. And from what I've observed, we'll be inserting our own pipes through that hole. O.O;; *sweatdrop*
Just to end this entry on a high note. After we returned a borrowed flashlight to the hospital's engineering department.. I caught sight of this beautiful thing offered in front of a religious image on the 9th floor and took a snapshot. If anyone wants a 4MP unedited shot of the picture on the right, give me a holler! This entry definitely will get an update by early August.
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