Centralized Cardiac Monitoring Center Developed by Cleveland Clinic

I have blogged about the development of virtual critical care units whereby smaller hospitals maintain critical care beds but rely upon remotely located intensivists to monitor their patients (see:Staffing An Intensive Care Unit From Miles Away Has Advantages;Telemedicine Transforms Intensive Care Units in Smaller Hospitals with Remote Monitoring). These units are developed in situations where skilled personnel are not available locally. The Cleveland Clinic has developed another variation on this theme with their centralized cardiac telemetry monitoring unit for non-critically ill patients (see:An Update on the Centralized Cardiac Telemetry Monitoring Unit). Below is an excerpt from the article with more details:Hospitals have long struggled with “alarm fatigue,” when busy nurses become desensitized to the constant noise emanating from cardiac telemetry monitoring systems....Meanwhile professional organizations identified rampant overuse of telemetry in low-risk patients as a chief contributor to alarm fatigue. At Cleveland Clinic, a dedicated off-site central monitoring unit (CMU) provides 24/7 secondary cardiac telemetry monitoring for non-critically ill patients at the health system ’s main campus and two of its regional hospitals.To avoid unnecessary monitoring of patients at low risk, the CMU team developed and rolled out standardized criteria for putting patients on telemetry in 2014....In August, results from the CMU ’s first 13 months of using the stand...

Source: Lab Soft News - October 26, 2017 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Healthcare Delivery Healthcare Information Technology Preventive Medicine Telemedicine Source Type: blogs