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 ...

While telemetry is valuable for monitoring patients’ vital signs and other measurements, inappropriate use of the tool can also expose patients to unintended harm, according to a report in JAMA ...

A Mission Hospital cardiac patient died in late July after becoming disconnected from telemetry monitoring for at least an hour, and hospital administration repeatedly refused to hold an emergency ...

When you are checked into the hospital you expect to be cared for and monitored. But, a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Health says staff at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono took 14 minutes to ...