And on nights, our Connex 6800s average about 38–40 seconds per BP on calm adults, while the older ProCare 300s upstairs take around 52–55… Do you have a benchmark for acceptable cycle time so I can make a data-based case to swap the slow ones, or is that delta too small to matter?
I got our ProCare 300s swapped by timing 20 patients and showing the Connex 6800s with SureBP averaged “38–40 sec” while the 300s were about 54 sec including a couple retries — about 8–10 minutes saved per vitals round. If you want a quick win meanwhile, drop the ProCare’s initial inflation from 180 to 160 and turn on auto‑adjust; you’ll usually shave about 5 seconds on calm adults, but arrhythmias or wrong cuff size kill the benefit. @OP do your 52–55 include failed cycles or are those clean single-pass reads?
I’d benchmark by “time-to-first-success” including retries and motion flags, not just the single-cycle number. Do a quick 30‑patient audit on both: log seconds and retake rate, then convert the delta into minutes per 12‑hr shift and a dollar ROI — admins perk up faster than a 0300 coffee. If your Connex with SureBP is consistently <45s and the 300s push >50 with more repeats, that’s enough variance to justify a swap; how many BPs per night are you doing on those pods, @rural-traveler11?
That 12–15 sec gap matters at scale — on a 24‑bed unit it’s roughly 20–30 nurse‑minutes per shift back; at 0300 it’s death‑by‑a‑thousand‑cuffs. For your packet, cite the Connex’s in‑inflation SureBP spec (about 15s) vs step‑deflation on the 300s and drop the source: https://www.hillrom.com/en/products/welch-allyn-surebp-technology/. Small caveat: have @Biomed check cuffs/tubing and lower the initial inflation target on the 300s first, since leaks or a fixed 180 mmHg start can make them look slow.