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- Everest
- Johnson & Johnson
- Smith & Nephew
- CONSUMER
- Dove
- Dell
- First Years
- INDUSTRIAL
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- Gilbarco
- Motorola
Meaningful Monitoring
What is Meaningful to Everest?
Everest is dedicated to developing a family of handheld brain-state assessment devices capable of turning the data into clinically relevant information that objectively detect critical conditions of the brain at the bedside or at the first point of care. Until now, these assessments could only be accomplished using expensive, marginally portable machines that produce simple raw data and require additional expert interpretation.
Everest asked HLB to conceive a new handheld device experience for anesthesiologists and patients that would define them as the premier product amongst their competition.
What is Meaningful to Anesthesiologists?
Portability – The range of existing devices were either very small, making the screens difficult to read, or very large and needing to be pole mounted. There was nothing manageable in the hand.
Anesthesiologists are often confronted with complicated controls and devices. We pursued simplicity at every opportunity. The user interface was designed to maximize readability. A color touch screen and minimized controls make navigation easy. A special set of electrodes was created that clearly illustrates the steps to placement with a highly ergonomic form factor.
What is Meaningful to Patients?
In an article published by USA Today, Robert Davis reports that anesthesia failure allows a patient to wake up during surgery, paralyzed and unable to cry for help. This occurs 100 times a day in the USA. Monitoring is a critical aid in preventing this situation.
Our driving consideration behind every design innovation for SNAP II was understanding that the more simple the device is to use, the less likely an error that could cause undue trauma to the patient.
Meaningful Results
HLB helped create SNAP II, Everest’s premier monitoring instrument that provides an all-new objective metric to help assess level of consciousness (LOC).
Snap II’s form factor is driven by the size of a physician’s coat pocket and the ergonomics of the hand providing for easy handling, and storage on the anesthesiologist or doctor’s person. SNAP II can ride unobtrusively on the gurney after a procedure and continue to monitor state of consciousness uninterrupted as the patient come out from under anesthesia.
SNAP II's convenience and versatility in its form factor and feature set allows clinicians to simplify activities, increase productivity, and provide improved patient care, all while reducing risks for the patient.
