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ESO Solutions Announces Addition of Broselow-Luten Pediatric System™ to ESO-Pro™ ePCR Software

Electronic patient care reporting ePCR system will provide EMS personnel with instant emergency treatment information for children

http://www.esosolutions.com/Austin, Texas (June 10, 2008) – ESO Solutions, Inc. announced today that it will incorporate the Broselow-Luten Pediatric Error Prevention System™ into its electronic patient care reporting (ePCR) software, the ESO Pro™ Suite. This proven emergency pediatric care reference system will help medics using ESO Pro™ reduce medical errors in high-stress situations involving children by allowing them to quickly and easily access color-coded tools designed to guide them in their therapeutic decision making.

“This is the first time that the Broselow-Luten system has been available to prehospital responders in electronic form, allowing EMTs and paramedics to literally have at their fingertips critical information on equipment size, treatment protocols and drug dosages customized for each pediatric patient, accessible directly within the ePCR system they use on every call,” said John Dadey, president and CEO of ESO Solutions.

“The partnership represents the only arrangement of its kind between Vital Signs, the licensor of the system, and a prehospital software provider,” Dadey continued.

The system is based on the widely respected work of two pioneering physicians, James Broselow and Robert Luten, who recognized the need for a pediatric patient safety system that would allow emergency care providers to provide fast, quality care for acutely ill or injured children. Working together, the physicians first developed the Broselow tape, a color-coded tape designed to correspond children’s length to their average weights and printed with pre-calculated doses of often-used emergency medicines; and subsequently, the Broselow-Luten system.

With the Broselow-Luten system, the color assigned to a particular child determines the correct medication dosage in milligrams that the child should receive. It also helps providers translate orders into volumetric equivalents and calculate dosage by drug concentration, freeing them to focus on more important factors of care during an emergency such as securing the airway and maintaining circulation. All of this information will be available electronically at the patient’s side to medics using ESO Pro™.

Dr. James Broselow stated, “The Broselow-Luten system has gained good momentum in the hospital market and is now poised to be a key component of pre-hospital electronic patient care reporting (ePCR) software. ESO’s decision to develop and incorporate the Broselow Luten Pediatric Error Prevention System module into the ESO Pro™ Suite of software demonstrates that our mutual goals of improving pre-hospital pediatric care are perfectly aligned.”

This unique partnership represents one of many advances being made in the ongoing development of the ESO Pro™ Suite of software, others of which include a robust quality management module, extensive ad hoc reporting functionality, and more. Dadey concluded, “This software enhancement demonstrates our ongoing commitment to provide our customers the tools they need to continue the advancement of prehospital emergency care.”

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