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 ...

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 ...

After three harrowing weeks in the hospital, Terry Downs, 68, was on a path to recovery. A former Boeing engineer who helped design the stealth bomber, Downs was admitted to HCA Healthcare's Wesley ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Megan Duncan, a cardiology nurse at the University of Michigan Hospital, began filing reports with ...

Interdisciplinary rounds (IRs) have been proposed to improve staff communication and reduce LOS. There have been no studies of IRs on an inpatient telemetry ward. Patients on a telemetry unit of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Muhlenberg Medical Center Summer Festival Committee has voted unanimously to turn over proceeds from this year’s festival Aug. 15-18 for the expansion of the Telemetry Unit at the hospital. At the ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Patients in the newest wing of the Telemetry Care Unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center are treated for pneumonia, flu, appendicitis, gall bladder removal and ...