Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Telemetry is a critical tool in keeping patients alive, but without proper monitoring, it can lead to tragedy. A former executive ...

A Delaware healthcare system was able to reduce its use of cardiac telemetry by 70% without affecting patient safety by integrating American Heart Association guidelines into their electronic ordering ...

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 ...

At Florida Hospital Tampa, we were recently looking for ways to optimize patient monitoring due to the ever increasing use of telemetry, or required continuous electronic monitoring. Several factors ...

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 ...

Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, especially in patients with congestive heart failure. Objectives: The purposes of this international, prospective ...

Draeger Medical, Inc. today announced FDA 510k clearance for its new Infinity TeleSmart system featuring a compact device capable of monitoring ECG and SpO2. Infinity TeleSmart provides the ...

In a California Healthline Special Report, doctors, nurses and robotic specialists discussed the value of robotic telemetry in intensive care settings. Â About 20 hospitals in California use the new ...

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 ...

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 ...

Telemetry is a critical tool in keeping patients alive, but without proper monitoring, it can lead to tragedy. A former executive with HCA, the nation’s largest hospital chain, described an “epidemic ...