ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on several clinical use cases that illustrate how data obtained from Patient Care Devices (PCDs) are used to facilitate clinical decision-making. Delays or inability to recognize early onset of respiratory events and the resulting respiratory depression, respiratory failure, and respiratory arrest suggest that continuous physiological monitoring inside of the hospital and even monitoring of patients receiving opioids for pain medication in ambulatory care settings (i.e., home) can have a measurable positive impact on patient adverse events and preventable mortality. Moreover, if clinically actionable events are truly present it would be logical to conclude that these events would either persist or would increase in frequency over time. Responding to adverse patient events has given rise to a collaborative clinical team that is focused on preventing further deterioration in patients in whom emergent conditions such as sepsis have arisen.
