An innovative approach to telemetry monitoring.
To use staff more effectively on a medical telemetry unit, nurses collaborated with clinical engineers to incorporate a commercially available pocket pager with a dysrhythmia detection system. Nurses carry a pocket pager which beeps and displays the patient's room number when a dysrhythmia is detected. This system eliminates the need for a telemetry monitor watcher and provides nurses with ongoing information about their patients. It also created an annual savings of approximately $130,000.
Sabol
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Emonds
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Soltys
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Disch
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D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000451:nursing*; D003142:Communication; D004868:Equipment Failure; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000451:nursing; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000451:nursing