Know Your Two (Trusted) Supply Options for Philips Patient Monitors
- By Philips
- April 15 2025
- 3 min read
Choosing the right accessories for Philips patient monitors is essential for safe, reliable performance. Learn the two trusted supply options—validated Philips products and verified third-party solutions—and why sticking with recommended sources matters for clinical care.
At-a-glance:
- Philips offers two trusted supply options: validated Philips accessories and verified third-party consumables.
- Validated Philips supplies are designed, tested, and manufactured by Philips for seamless integration and high performance.
- Verified third-party supplies come from approved partners like Edwards, Medtronic, and Masimo, and meet required FDA and EC standards.
- Philips does not recommend unverified third-party products and advises health systems to contract directly with Philips or its approved partners.
Let’s say you need to equip your new Philips patient monitors with sensors, cables, cuffs, lead wires, batteries and the like. Or you already have Philips monitors and you’re running low on supplies.
The market offers a range of multi-patient accessories and single-use consumables, from names you may instantly recognize to names you may not. Many of these products appear very similar, at least until you dig a little deeper. How do you choose the best option for your hospital or health system?
The quick answer: To support reliable and safe monitor operation, Philips divides its supply recommendations into two categories: Supplies we validate, and certain supplies made by verified third parties. We do not recommend any other third-party supplies.
To help with decision-making, it may help to learn a little more, though, about the two categories:
Recommendation 1: Validated accessories and consumables from Philips
With these supplies, Philips directly oversees development and production. From each physical component to each piece of software, internal teams know the intricacies of Philips monitors, to promote seamless integration and peak performance.
Key points:
- Designers craft all validated supplies to work with the intended Philips monitor and within the larger Philips monitoring ecosystem.
- Supplies are rigorously tested while connected to Philips monitors, using the latest Philips software and simulating real-world conditions. For example, noninvasive blood pressure cuffs undergo inflate-deflate cycles and connectors get pulled on. For some products, such as SpO2 sensors, Philips also incorporates feedback from clinicians in care settings.
- Once testing is completed – and any adjustments are made – validated supplies are manufactured with strict quality controls.
- The pairing of validated supplies and Philips monitors meets standards set by the Food and Drug Administration and the European Commission.
- The same monitor-supply combo also meets a full range of industry standards for safety and performance, including the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), Association for Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) and International Standards Organization (ISO).
- Philips stands behind its clinical measurements — we perform testing and validation as an end-to-end system, from what care teams plug into monitors to what they attach to patients.
Option 2: Verified and approved accessories and consumables from partners
Philips has established vendor relationships for particular patient monitoring supplies, such as invasive blood pressure technology from Edwards Lifesciences. Examples of similar partnerships include Medtronic and Masimo, and certain supplies they sell.
Key points:
- The verified third-party supplier performs agreed-upon input testing, using its targeted product on Philips monitors.
- The vendor shares the results with Philips; Philips checks the verification and then decides whether to approve it.
- While partners may choose not to go beyond ISO for industry standards, they do meet the same FDA and EC requirements.
- Health systems have asked Philips if there is an independent, third-party tester for other supplies, outside of those from verified partners. Philips is not aware of such an option.
How to obtain recommended patient monitoring supplies
For consistent and dependable supply delivery, we recommend contracting with Philips and our partners.
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Results are specific to the institution where they were obtained and may not reflect the results achievable at other institutions. Results in other cases may vary.