The EarlySense Central Display System is intended to provide remote central monitoring and display of information as recorded by multiple EarlySense bedside units, on a central remote screen. The system can be used in hospitals or hospital type and clinic environment.
Device Story
The EarlySense Central Display System (CDS) is a software application installed on off-the-shelf PC hardware. It communicates via TCP/IP (wired or wireless LAN) with multiple EarlySense bedside monitoring units. The system receives and displays physiological data (heart rate, respiration rate, motion, bed status, SpO2) and alert information on a central remote screen. It allows clinicians to remotely access the user interface of individual bedside units to view or adjust parameters, such as alert thresholds. The system can also format alert information for transmission to external devices like pagers. It supports remote viewing via tablets or additional PCs. The CDS does not perform independent data analysis; it duplicates data received from bedside units. It is intended for use in hospital or clinic environments by healthcare professionals to facilitate centralized patient monitoring.
Clinical Evidence
Bench testing only. No clinical data was provided. Performance was validated through risk analysis, software verification and validation, and performance bench testing to demonstrate safety and effectiveness equivalent to predicate devices.
Technological Characteristics
Software application running on off-the-shelf PC hardware. Connectivity via TCP/IP (wired/wireless LAN). System components include standard PC, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and optional external displays/pagers. Does not perform data analysis; functions as a remote display and control interface for bedside units.
Indications for Use
Indicated for remote central monitoring and display of physiological data and alerts from EarlySense bedside units in hospital or clinic environments.
Regulatory Classification
Identification
A cardiac monitor (including cardiotachometer and rate alarm) is a device used to measure the heart rate from an analog signal produced by an electrocardiograph, vectorcardiograph, or blood pressure monitor. This device may sound an alarm when the heart rate falls outside preset upper and lower limits.
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Food and Drug Administration 10903 New Hampshire Avenue Document Control Center - WO66-G609 Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002
August 31, 2015
Earlysense Ltd. Dalia Argaman VP Clinical and Regulatory Affairs 12 Tzvi St Ramat Gan, 5250429, Israel
Re: K151006
Trade/Device Name: Earlysense Central Display System (CDS) Regulation Number: 21 CFR 870.2300 Regulation Name: Cardiac Monitor (Including Cardiotachometer and Rate Alarm) Regulatory Class: Class II Product Code: MSX, MWI Dated: June 1, 2015 Received: June 4, 2015
Dear Dalia Argaman:
We have reviewed your Section 510(k) premarket notification of intent to market the device referenced above and have determined the device is substantially equivalent (for the indications for use stated in the enclosure) to legally marketed predicate devices marketed in interstate commerce prior to May 28, 1976, the enactment date of the Medical Device Amendments, or to devices that have been reclassified in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (Act) that do not require approval of a premarket approval application (PMA). You may, therefore, market the device, subject to the general controls provisions of the Act. The general controls provisions of the Act include requirements for annual registration, listing of devices, good manufacturing practice, labeling, and prohibitions against misbranding and adulteration. Please note: CDRH does not evaluate information related to contract liability warranties. We remind you, however, that device labeling must be truthful and not misleading.
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Sincerely yours.
Mitchell Stein
forBram D. Zuckerman, M.D. Director Division of Cardiovascular Devices Office of Device Evaluation Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Enclosure
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# Indications for Use
510(k) Number (if known) K151006
Device Name EarlySense Central Display Station (CDS)
Indications for Use (Describe)
The EarlySense Central Display System is intended to provide remote central monitoring and display of information as recorded by multiple EarlySense bedside units, on a central remote screen. The system can be used in hospital type and clinic environment.
Type of Use (Select one or both, as applicable):
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# 510(K) SUMMARY
## EarlySense Central Display System (CDS)
#### I. SUBMITTER
EarlySense Ltd. 12 Tzvi St. Ramat Gan 5250429, Israel Phone: +972-3-7522330(ext.106); Fax: +972-3-7522340 Contact Person: Dalia Argaman E-mail: Dalia.Argaman@EarlySense.com Date Prepared: August 12, 2015
#### II. DEVICE
Device Common/Trade Name: EarlySense Central Display System (CDS) Classification Name: System Network and communication, physiological monitor (21 CFR Sec. 870.2300) Regulatory Class: II Product Code: MSX, MWI
#### III. PREDICATE DEVICES
Primary Predicate: EarlySense Central Display Station, K121885 Secondary Predicate: Connex Central Station, K132807 These predicates have not been subjects to a design-related recall.
#### IV. DEVICE DESCRIPTION
A traditional 510(k) is submitted to clear the updated Central Display Station System with the new software version 1.1.2.2
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The EarlySense Central Display System (CDS) is a system which includes EarlySense developed application software, installed on standard off-the-shelf PC computer with a computer screen. The system also uses standard off-the shelf communication and IT hardware.
The CDS is intended to communicate with multiple EarlySense Bedside monitoring devices (cleared as K131379 and K120465), in order to display the information as it is monitored on the bedside units on a central remote screen. The users can access the user interface of the individual bedside units via the CDS's screen and view or adjust bedside units' parameters, e.g. change settable parameters, such as alert thresholds.
The communication is performed through TCP/IP protocol, either via standard wired or via wireless LAN communication. The transmitted information from Bedside Unit to CDS and backwards includes alert information and physiological parameters (such as patient in / out of bed status, heart rate, respiration rate, motion rate and Sp02, if monitored at bedside unit, as well as room and bed number, etc.). The CDS can also format the alert information as obtained from Bedside units into a message that can be transmitted to external devices that can communicate with the CDS via standard TCP/IP port. In addition, a possibility to remotely view the CDS screen from a tablet or additional PC computer exists.
The accessories that can be possibly used with CDS system include:
- . Computer Screen
- . Keyboard and mouse
- Additional hallway LCD/LED screen .
- . External communication devices, like: pagers, etc.
- Tablet or additional PC computer (to remotely view the CDS computer . screen)
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#### V. INTENDED USE/INDICATIONS FOR USE
The EarlySense Central Display System is intended to provide remote central monitoring and display of information as recorded by multiple EarlySense bedside units, on a central remote screen. The system can be used in hospitals or hospital type and clinic environment.
The Indications for Use statement of the EarlySense Central Display Station (CDS) is similar to its predicate devices: the modified Earlysense CDS is intended for remote view of the EarlySense bedside units monitoring data and it also allows to adjust the bedside units settable parameters by allowing remote view of the user interface of individual bedside units and adjusting the settable parameters from afar. These features were not present in the previous cleared version of the CDS, but are present in the secondary predicate, Connex Central Station, K132807, that is intended for central monitoring of patient data and alarms.
### COMPARISON OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS VI. WITH THE PREDICATE DEVICES
The modified EarlySense CDS Systems share the similar fundamental functionality, the similar principle of operation, similar types of components, similar intended use and indications for use with the predicate devices.
The modified EarlySense Central Display Systems share the same technological principle with its predicate devices and at the high level, the subject and predicate devices are based on the same technological features:
- . Similar to its predicates, the modified CDS is a software application that is developed by EarlySense and is installed on Off-the-shelf hardware (computer).
- . Modified CDS system and its predicates are used for remote central monitoring and display of information as recorded by Bedside units.
- . System hardware components are similar for all three systems and include: Standard PC with monitor, mouse, screen,
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- . Only the software is developed and produced by the manufacturers in modified CDS and its predicates, all the other parts of the system are bought off-the-shelf
- . Modified CDS and its cleared CDS predicate remotely display and monitor exactly the same physiological parameters, such as: Heart Rate, Respiration Rate, Sp02, motion and bed exit features
- Communication with the Bedside units is performed in exactly the . same way as in cleared device, through LAN and wireless LAN
- Modified and cleared CDS systems do not perform analysis of data, but . only duplicate the data received from Bedside units
- EarlySense and its predicate devices are used in the same clinical . environments- hospitals or hospital type and clinic environment
The following technological differences exist between the modified EarlySense CDS and its predicate devices:
- . Modified CDS is able to remotely access separate Bedside units and adjust bedside unit's settable parameters from remote station. The new feature, didn't exist in cleared EarlySense CDS, but capability of adjusting bedside units parameters exists in Connex System
#### VII. PERFORMANCE DATA
The modified EarlySense CDS System was subject to the whole range of verification and validation tests:
- 1. Risk analysis (See Section 16 of the current submission)
- 2. Software Verification and Validation (See Section 16 of the current submission)
- 3. Performance Bench Testing (See Section 18 of the current submission)
The conclusions drawn from the non-clinical tests demonstrate that the device is as safe, as effective, and performs as well as or better than the predicate devices: EarlySense Central Display Station (K121885) and Connex Central Station, (K132807).
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