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Joint Commission Issues Sentinel Event Alert on Opioid-Induced Respiratory Depression
Date:8/13/2012

IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced today that The Joint Commission has issued a Sentinel Event Alert on safe use of opioids in hospitals with recommendations to implement better dosing along with oxygenation and ventilation monitoring in post-surgical patients. The Masimo Patient SafetyNet™ System, consisting of Measure-through Motion and Low Perfusion oxygenation monitoring (Masimo SET® Pulse Oximetry or rainbow SET® Pulse CO-Oximetry), choice of easy-to-use ventilation monitoring with rainbow® Acoustic Monitoring or standard capnography, and remote monitoring and clinician notification to keep clinicians connected to patients, can help hospitals comply with The Joint Commission recommendations. The Patient SafetyNet System is also the only technology clinically shown to reduce rapid response activations, intensive care unit (ICU) transfers, and deaths related to opioid-induced respiratory depression.

While opioid use is safe for most patients, opioid analgesics are associated with adverse effects1,2,3 and cause respiratory depression in 0.5% of post-surgical patients, who often receive them for pain management.4,5,6 Opioid analgesics rank among the drugs most frequently associated with adverse drug events, the Sentinel Event Alert noted. Of opioid-related adverse drug events – including deaths – that occurred in hospitals and were reported to The Joint Commission's Sentinel Event database (2004-2011), 47% were wrong dosing medication errors, 29% were related to improper monitoring of the patient, and 11% were related to other factors including excessive dosing, medication interactions, and adverse drug reactions.

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