Despite efforts, the detection of patients who are deteriorating in hospital is often later than it
should be. Several technologies could provide the basis of a solution. Recording of vital …

Hospitalised patients, who suffer cardiac arrest and require unanticipated intensive care unit
(ICU) admission or die, often exhibit premonitory abnormalities in vital signs. Sometimes, the …

After reading this chapter, you should be able to answer these questions 1. What is patient
monitoring, and why is it used? 2. What patient parameters do bedside physiological …

Introduction: Monitoring a patient's vital signs forms a basic component of care, enabling the
identification of deteriorating patients and increasing the likelihood of improving patient …

The EarlySense Monitoring System has been developed to provide continuous monitoring of
heart rate (HR), respiration rate (RR), and bed motion for patients in medical/surgical …

Recent developments in communications technologies and associated computing and
digital electronics now permit patient data, including routine vital signs, to be surveyed at a …

Objective The aim of the study was to evaluate the ability of a data-fusion patient status
index (PSI) to detect patient deterioration in the emergency department (ED) in comparison …

Background Continuous vital sign monitoring may identify changes sooner than current
standard monitoring. Objective To investigate if the use of real-time digital alerts sent to …

In low resource hospitals, strained staffing ratios and lack of telemetry can put patients at risk
for clinical deterioration and unexpected cardiac arrest. While traditional telemetry systems …

Unrecognized changes in patients' vital signs can result in preventable deaths in
hospitalized patients. Few publications or studies instituting routine patient monitoring have …