Category: NIHON KOHDEN Vismo bedside monitors and networking. In this article we review both the PVM-2701, PVM-2703 and PVM-4763 Vismo patient monitors.
The First VISMO Monitors |
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NIHON KOHDEN had always wanted to have parts sourced in China to lower cost, and the Vismo PVM-2701 was a pilot move, designed in Japan but with many parts sourced in China.
The release of VISMO PVM-2701 bedside monitor was announced by Signal 718 dated November 2009. Vismo is short for Vital Signs Monitor. Notice this was the first model to do away with the suffix.

Initially, the PVM-2701 was assembled both in China and Japan, but that changed from February 2011. This coincided with the release of Vismo PVM-2703, and from its release, all production are only in China.

The monitor that is short of one physical connector socket |
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The Vismo PVM-2703 was released in February 2011, capable of monitoring ECG, Respiration, SpO2, NIBP, Temperature, IBP or CO2. This is not a true 7-parameter monitor because it is either IBP or mainstream CO2, but not both. Does that sound like a compromise? Yes, it is!

The differentiating feature of the VISMO PVM-2703 bedside monitor against the competitions is the utilization of a flexible MULTI (short for multi-parameter) socket that is for sharing use, and this socket is colored yellow. The yellow MULTI socket can be connected to internal analog hardware for IBP monitoring, or diverted to be a digital serial port for mainstream CO2 kit sets.
The shared-use