In late November, staff in Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono’s cardiovascular telemetry unit took 14 minutes to respond to an alarm that sounded because one patient’s blood oxygen level fell to a ...

Megan Duncan, a cardiology nurse at the University of Michigan Hospital, began filing reports with her superiors detailing concerns with the hospital’s new remote heartbeat monitoring program in ...

The coronary care unit (CCU) became a staple of acute MI care decades ago, but it appears that in the current era stable NSTE-ACS patients fare just as well in the short-term if they are instead ...

Even when patients are on telemetry monitoring according to appropriate guidelines, "there are very few things they tell us that we can't find out in other ways," researcher says. Analysis of one ...

In related news, a report by San Francisco-based Turnstone Consulting has determined that Kaiser Permanente's planned 224-bed Modesto Medical Center and 49-acre medical campus would create ...

To detect "silent" or new cardiac abnormalities, all patients hospitalized for stroke should receive continuous cardiac rhythm monitoring (telemetry) for at least the first 24 hours after the stroke ...

HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital has cut the ribbon on its new 15-bed cardiac telemetry unit, according to an Aug. 31 report from South Florida Hospital News. The expansion will allow the system to ...

The authors report overutilization of telemetry monitoring in a community setting, increasing the cost of health care and potential harm to patients with unnecessary interventions. Objectives: ...

Gina Covino puts her heart into every part of her job. After working as a registered nurse, Covino found a calling in supporting other nurses. Today, she is clinical lead at Regional Hospital of ...