Philips Expands Patient Monitoring Leadership Surpassing 100,000 IntelliVue Systems Sold; Innovative Clinical Decision Support Tools Helping Speed Awareness of Critical Changes in Patient Condition on Display at Annual AACN-NTI Meeting.

ANDOVER, Mass. -- Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) announced today at the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses' (AACN) annual National Teaching Institute (NTI) & Critical Care Exposition in Anaheim, Calif. that healthcare providers have purchased more than 100,000 Philips IntelliVue patient monitors worldwide. A recognized patient monitoring market leader, Philips is sponsoring a patient safety education booth alongside its technology showcase, which features advanced tools that are less intrusive, more intuitive, and enhance the healthcare experience for clinicians and patients.

"Since the first IntelliVue monitor was introduced in 2002, Philips patient monitoring business has continued to gain substantial market share worldwide and is now the clear market leader worldwide in patient monitoring. This significant product sales milestone illustrates how quickly the industry has embraced the IntelliVue portfolio of monitors with sophisticated clinical decision support tools, flexible display, and above all, IntelliVue's intuitive ease of use," said David Russell, vice president, marketing, patient monitoring, for Philips Medical Systems. "Philips will continue to set a brisk pace by further expanding the IntelliVue line of monitors and delivering even more efficient clinical decision support tools to caregivers."

Advanced monitoring technologies reflect clinical thought processes

IntelliVue monitors capture data from multiple sources and present it in clinically relevant ways to help clinicians make well-informed treatment choices at the point of care. On display at this year's AACN-NTI are built-in clinical decision support tools that make the most of IntelliVue's powerful algorithms and highly flexible display capabilities. Multi-parameter alarming and unique, patented displays, including ST Map and horizon trending, give clinical users a coherent overview of their patients' status at a glance. Changes in the ST segment of an electrocardiograph tracing, for example, can indicate myocardial ischemia, or less-than-normal blood flow to the heart. IntelliVue's ST Map graphical display is designed around the clinician and displays a mind's-eye view of ST segment changes, with the goal of helping clinicians recognize patterns and track patient progress more easily.

IntelliVue technologies, including the popular MP series bedside patient monitors and measurements, the IntelliVue Information Center central station, advanced telemetry, and clinical information systems, all serve as the framework for Philips innovations in clinical decision support.

Philips is also highlighting its recently launched SureSigns VM vitals signs monitors, designed with intuitive navigation and bright, simplified display options for exceptional ease of use in a wide variety of care environments.

Clinical advisories designed to help keep patients safe

The newest release of Philips CareVue Chart clinical information system offers clinical decision support in the form of clinical advisories. The system compiles virtually every element of the patient's accumulated clinical data--vital signs, medications, demographics, lab results, calculations, orders, and more. CareVue Chart constantly evaluates all data as it comes in, and when a combination of events warrants attention, the system issues a clinical advisory that can be sent out to physicians' and nurses' pagers for quick notification.

The guidelines for recognizing and treating sepsis put forward by the international Surviving Sepsis Campaign, for instance, call on caregivers to monitor and manage a number of parameters from many different sources, including urine output, central venous pressure, glucose levels, and blood cultures. Since CareVue Chart automatically receives lab results as well as data from patient monitors and other bedside devices, it is uniquely positioned to deliver early warnings and help nurses evaluate a patient's response to therapy.

CareVue Chart's remarkable reporting capabilities also help care teams track compliance with evidence-based practice recommendations. Simple, comprehensive reporting is indispensable to hospitals in this new era of pay for performance, not to mention unannounced full site inspections from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).

Supporting NTI's Educational Mission for nearly two decades

Philips Medical Systems will continue the company's nearly 20 years of support for the AACN-NTI's educational mission. Philips is sponsoring the annual Distinguished Research Lecture featuring Norma Metheny, RN, PhD, FAAN, on Preventing Respiratory Complications of Tube Feeding. Philips is also offering various courses for CEU credit in its education booth. Topics include Early Identification of Sepsis, Case Studies in ST Map, Performance Monitoring during CPR, and Quality Improvement Using a Clinical Information System.

"We have entered a new era in patient monitoring where it is no longer acceptable simply to provide vast amounts of data," said Karen Giuliano, clinical scientist for Philips Medical Systems. "Our systems need to be optimized to provide only the most pertinent information at the moment it is needed. We are working on new ways of presenting data and, in fact, new ways of thinking about the data. Every year, the NTI show is a great forum for presenting our ideas and getting incredibly valuable feedback."

Philips technologies for patient monitoring, resuscitation, cardiology, clinical information management, and related supplies will be showcased in Philips booths #1809 and #2009.

About Royal Philips Electronics

Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) is one of the world's biggest electronics companies and Europe's largest, with sales of $37.7 billion (EUR 30.4 billion) in 2005. With activities in the three interlocking domains of healthcare, lifestyle and technology and 161,500 employees in more than 60 countries, it has market leadership positions in medical diagnostic imaging and patient monitoring, color television sets, electric shavers, lighting and silicon system solutions. News from Philips is located at www.philips.com/newscenter.