Telemetry monitoring guidelines for efficient and safe delivery of cardiac rhythm monitoring to noncritical hospital inpatients

Critical Pathways in Cardiology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 125-126

  Dhillon, Sandeep K ^a,b   Rachko, Maurice ^a   Hanon, Sam ^a   Schweitzer, Paul ^a   Bergmann, Steven R ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Division of Cardiology   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Guidelines; Monitoring; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART RHYTHM; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEMONITORING;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TACHYCARDIA; TELEMETRY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 70349147414     PISSN: 1535282X     EISSN: 15352811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HPC.0b013e3181b6ef41     Document Type: Article

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