Franciscan Munster-Healthcare is now a leader in patient safety with new technology

Franciscan Munster-Healthcare is one of the nation’s first healthcare institutions to embrace recommendations from several medical groups to protect patients by using capnography technology.   Capnography, a tool to measure how effectively a patient is breathing, is critical to identifying respiratory depression, which The Joint Commission calls a serious patient safety issue. Respiratory depression can be life threatening.   The Joint Commission, the organization that inspects and certifies the nation’s hospitals, is one of several groups recommending the use of capnography.  Others include the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the American Heart Association.   Capnography equipment is routinely used to monitor patient respiration during surgery, especially when patients are sedated with opioid analgesics like morphine. But Franciscan-Munster Healthcare is one of the nation’s first hospitals to use capnography to monitor patients post-operatively to ensure they are breathing properly and to enable medical staff to intervene in time if they are not.   I hope that you will give serious consideration to the attached release about this breakthrough use of capnography.  I would be happy to coordinate an interview with someone from Franciscan Healthcare-Munster if you wish.   Best regards, Jane A. Kramer Strategic Communications & Public Affairs

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