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 ...

Empowering clinical teams to respond to surges, track usage and ease workflows with user-friendly touchscreen technology for telemetry patients on the move Telemetry overuse can burden frontline teams ...

Energy production is diversifying rapidly, with solar, wind, wave, hydropower, marine, and biomass adding to more traditional methods. Renewable energy today generates about 30% of all electricity, ...

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 ...

Although current policy at many hospitals is for patients to have continuous routine cardiac monitoring in the hours after undergoing PCI, a new study suggests it may be safe to forgo it in patients ...

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: ...

While alarms play an important role in notifying healthcare professionals of critical patient needs, having too many notifications can cause alarm fatigue for already overworked nurses and may put ...

As big, complicated enterprises seek more efficient ways to monitor and troubleshoot their networks, a growing number are looking to streaming network telemetry Network telemetry is far from new, but ...

Our 2023 survey of more than 800 women, found despite less invasive wireless telemetry being available, women mostly received wired monitoring. This was particularly true for first-time mothers, and ...

Union nurses at Mission demanded hospital administration meet with them to address standards of care following the July death of a patient in the cardiac unit. // Watchdog photo by Katie Linsky Shaw A ...