DeCa Hospital: Alternative communication system/AAC for nurses and non-speaking patients

DeCa Hospital

DeCa Hospital is an alternative communication system (AAC system) for interaction between doctors, nurses and intensive therapy patients who are currently awake but cannot speak. According to interviews with resuscitators, there are 30% of such patients in intensive therapy: patients with tracheostomy, patients after surgery, patients on non-invasive mechanical ventilation, patients with hearing and speech impairments, etc. The app interface was developed with the participation of expert resuscitators and takes into account the basic needs of bedridden patients in consciousness. For the doctor it is also an additional diagnostic tool.

It reduces communication time with patients from 3 minutes to 32 seconds, according to research from DeCa Hospital. Medical staff caring for bedridden patients are often overloaded [4]. On average, an intensive care shift lasts 8-12 hours, and there are 3-5 or even more patients for a single nurse, 3 of whom are conscious; moreover, a bypass is done once every 1-2 hours, and this provided that the nurse has to carry out medical-health prescriptions with bedridden patients. It is roughly estimated that 1.5 hours per shift are spent on ineffective communications. The application will save time and effort for medical staff, who can be employed for routine medical procedures or for a short break, quench their thirst or go to the bathroom.
Reduces burnout of hospital staff. he application was developed with the participation of experienced resuscitators and considering the needs of conscious bedridden patients. All buttons in the app are designed that way, that doctor or nurse does not have to read the minds of the patients. Now doctors are making great efforts to guess the requests of patients unable to speak with the help of gestures, paper notes and alphabet cards: such analog communication methods require a lot of effort and cause emotional exhaustion of medical personnel [1]. DeCa Hospital reduces the emotional and psychological burden of the nursing staff and standardizes the interview process.
It maintains the normal cognitive state of patients. More than 50% of ICU patients deprived of communication, experience stress and depression [3], are prone to delirium and cognitive impairment [2]. DeCa Hospital is an alternative digital communication system for patients who are not disabled but cannot speak at the moment. The application allows patients to imitate communication and vocal requests of interest, this removes the stress factor of vocal deprivation. The app also displays the time, which prevents patients from getting lost and helps keep their minds clear. DeCa stimulates patients to connect and helps maintain normal cognitive state. Patients without cognitive impairments recover faster [2], which has a positive effect on the services offered by the hospital/clinic.
Simplify diagnostics. DeCa Hospital is a digital and modern tool to interrogate patients during medical visits, even when patients cannot speak. Furthermore, the application collects feedback, provides general statistics and comparisons. This is an additional diagnostic tool for doctors.

DeCa Hospital is a digital system of alternative communication between doctors and patients. The interface of the main screen of this program is represented by buttons that cover the most frequent patients’ requests: “it hurts”, “change body position”, “it is difficult to breathe” and others. Also, the main screen allows you to answer simple questions using the “yes” and “no” buttons. An additional screen of the program contains a scale of pain and allows you to select the localization of pain, for example, “leg hurts”, “headache”, which facilitates diagnosis.

Start using DeCa Hospital now, the program is very easy to install and does not require staff or patient training to use it.

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support Android,
multilingual software supports Italian, English, Russian, Spanish,
works both without internet and with unstable WiFi,
trial period– 30 days of free use for new users,
technical support is included in the license price,
no paid content within the app.

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