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 ...

A pipe that burst inside Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital on Monday flooded part of the hospital’s second floor, hospital officials said. The sprinkler pipe burst near the telemetry unit, located ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wilmington, Del.-based Christiana Care Health System was able to reduce its mean daily cost for non-intensive care unit cardiac telemetry from $18,971 to $5,772 in less than six months through an ...

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 ...

These monitors continuously track heart rates and rhythms and detect cardiac problems quickly, Dr. Muhammad Khan said Friday. He is an interventional cardiologist and medical director of the ...