The introduction of Vygon’s Mostcare Up technology has saved around £50,000 on consumables and reduced administrative pressure on clinicians by almost five hours per patient, per week.
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust is already seeing the benefit of its £15 million investment in a new Intensive Treatment Unit (ITU) at the end of 2023. The Trust estimates that its new cardiac output technology has saved around £50,000 on consumables, all while reducing administrative pressures on clinicians by almost five hours per patient, per week.
To help with the roughly 600 admissions of critically ill people into intensive care at Croydon University Hospital each year, the clinical team installed 10 Mostcare Up haemodynamic monitors in its 22-bed ITU.
Before the upgrade, the Croydon team had six cardiac output machines, which required calibration every 24 hours and used consumables which cost around £50,000 per year. Depending upon the practitioner’s proficiency and the reliability of the equipment, the calibration process could take up to 40 minutes, per device.
“As part of our ITU investment, we formed a consultant group which agreed to trial Mostcare Up. During the trial we noticed how easy the machine was to use – the ‘plug and play’ functionality and data validation without the need for consumables, meant there were clear benefits to using the technology,” said Tim Kuhn, head of nursing at the hospital’s critical care and critical care outreach team.
Mostcare Up, manufactured by medical device manufacturer Vygon UK, is an arterial waveform analysis cardiac output monitor designed to guide and enhance clinical decision-making in the operating room and critical care areas. It provides real-time continuous advanced minimally invasive haemodynamic monitoring for assessment of preload, contractility, and afterload.
