Hello All,

Many of you may recall that when we are working with particularly small pediatric patients that we utilize a stand-alone SpO2 device that is kept in the pedi bags, this unit when necessary, allows us to utilize a self-adhesive strip (like a small band-aid) to adhere a sensor to a little-one’s toe/thumb.

We have now acquired the ability to do this with our Zoll monitor; however, rather than changing the finger probe from adult to “small finger” size, what we will have to do is change the entire cable beginning at the monitor, and then attach to this new “first cable” a cable with a self-adhesive sensor like we are used to using with the stand-alone unit in the pedi kit.

This will help us by enabling us to capture all of a pediatric patient’s vitals on the monitor and upload them to Imagetrend.

Secondarily, we do now have some smaller BP cuffs not only with the monitor, but also even smaller (infant, neonate) cuffs in the pedi kits.  I’m not sure all of them have arrived yet, but those that have are now in the pedi kits.  When using such devices on our “wee” patients, it’s also important to switch the monitor from “adult” mode to “pedi” mode.  Please acquaint yourself with these realities the next time you are in or ask someone else to help you.

The infant/neonate cuffs are purposefully in the pedi kit rather than with the monitor because of how small they are, I am afraid they would easily get lost in the custom of “normal business” if they were kept in the outside pocket of the monitor because they could become separated from the group easily if we were shuffling cuff sizes and be missed falling on the floor or something.

Thank you all,