Philips collaborates with AAKSS in unique emergency patient care

Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex are to equip all of its emergency service helicopters with the Philips RDT Tempus ALS and Philips IntelliSpace Corsium web-based software platform, making AAKSS the first Emergency Service in the UK to use this new life-saving technology. Helicopter Emergency Service teams can live stream patient medical information like body temperature, ECG, heart rhythm, pulse, respiratory rate and blood pressure, from the scene to the receiving hospital, as well as the on-call air ambulance team. The Tempus ALS solution consists of the Tempus Pro portable, vital signs monitor, and the Tempus LS defibrillator. The monitor and defibrillator devices connect wirelessly to share data and transfer patient vitals, waveforms and images into Philips IntelliSpace Corsium. Philips Enhanced Data Service minimizes data packets to enhance reliability over low bandwidth preventing data loss during transmission.
Arman Voskerchyan, Philips’ Business Leader of Therapeutic Care, said: “AAKSS takes an approach of innovation and thought leadership to help enhance patient outcomes through delivering the most effective patient care. It’s exciting to collaborate with a team who visions that data, how it’s used, how it’s transmitted, and how it connects people and relevant information, and predictive analytics, derived from data, is the future of connected care. Connectivity and digital technology continue to drive how we are helping to save lives and improve patient care.”
Associate Medical Director, Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex, Dr. Richard Lyon, said: “In emergency situations where every second counts, having the ability to livestream a patient’s physiology data from an incident scene, whether in route on the ground or in the air, offers a tremendous opportunity for our team to improve the outcomes for our patients. This collaboration with Philips RDT allows our teams to give better remote medical advice for our receiving hospitals to better prepare for the patient’s arrival. As a charity that continually strives to improve patient care through innovation, we are excited to be working with Philips RDT and see the positive benefit this novel technology will bring.”