ARMC completes system-wide conversion to Masimo rainbow technology

Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC) in Colton, California, and Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI), the inventor of Masimo rainbow Pulse CO-Oximetry™, Masimo rainbow Acoustic Monitoring™, and Masimo SET® Measure-Through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry, today jointly announced the completion of ARMC's system-wide conversion to Masimo rainbow technology.  The conversion ensures that all ARMC patients can be monitored using the most technologically and clinically-advanced noninvasive patient monitoring technologies available—providing real-time measurement results for critical physiological parameters that help clinicians to more rapidly assess, diagnose, and treat patients.  

"The decision to convert our network to the Masimo rainbow technology platform came down to wanting to equip our facility with the best and most advanced noninvasive patient monitoring capabilities available," stated Patrick Petre, Director at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center. "Our mission is to provide quality care to the community using the most advanced patient care technology."

The system-wide conversion standardizes all of ARMC's sites of care to Masimo rainbow technology—the only upgradeable pulse oximetry platform that allows hospitals to add breakthrough noninvasive blood constituent, hemodynamic, and respiration measurement capabilities that previously required invasive procedures.  The ability to continuously and noninvasively measure total hemoglobin (SpHb®), oxygen content (SpOC™), carboxyhemoglobin (SpCO®), methemoglobin (SpMet®), Pleth Variability Index (PVI®), and acoustic respiration rate (RRa™), in addition to Masimo SET 'gold standard' Measure-Through Motion and Low Perfusion oxyhemoglobin (SpO2), perfusion index (PI), and pulse rate (PR) measurements enables monitoring of multiple physiological parameters simultaneously—facilitating earlier detection and treatment of life-threatening conditions.  The conversion involved upgrading virtually all of the hospital's multiparameter patient monitors, oximeters, and sensors to enable the new patient monitoring capabilities.  

"This upgrade is important because it enables us to now provide noninvasive, technologically-advanced monitoring technologies to our patients," said Dr. David T. Wong, a surgeon and chief of Trauma and Critical Care Services at ARMC. "It also provides flexibility in that we can now continuously monitor blood constituents, fluid responsiveness, and advanced oxygen delivery parameters, in addition to the more common measurements of arterial saturation and pulse rate."

Masimo Founder and CEO, Joe Kiani, stated, "Arrowhead Regional Medical Center joins a growing list of the world's most demanding hospitals standardizing to Masimo rainbow as their universal oximetry solution.  Offering the most advanced noninvasive measurement capabilities, our rainbow oximetry platform helps state-of-the-art hospitals leverage cutting-edge medical technologies that improve patient outcomes and reduce the cost of care."