Telemetry is a critical tool in keeping patients alive, but without proper monitoring, it can lead to tragedy. A former executive with HCA, the nation’s largest hospital chain, described an “epidemic of telemetry mishaps” at some of its facilities. HCA says “telemetry saves lives and that is why we use it.” NBC News’ Cynthia McFadden reports.
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Yes, we can effectively monitor 60 people. So long as techs are trained and we have **effective communication tools**. I work in a huge hospital. The biggest problem is getting someone on the phone when we immediately see the patient’s arrhythmia or change in vitals. It’s no different when we work on the floors. If we cannot communicate the problem to the nurse, we can’t abandon the telemetry station. It doesn’t matter if we are 100 feet away or if we’re multiple floors away. It’s all about the ability it get the information to the nurse. Someone needs to answer a phone call.
But well trained techs can and do effectively monitor 60 patients without a problem. And it doesn’t matter where they are. Centrally or from the floor they’re monitoring. It’s less chaotic than it sounds. And we can (and do) monitor more than just ECG.
If it was his wife or family, the manager or the floor would make sure they got special treatment And would give them only 1 Nurse (if ICU), or a lesser patient/easier load for the Nurse caring for them. It's ridiculous.
A lot of experienced travel nurses avoid HCA facilities. I worked at one in VA. One of the top 3 worst hospitals I ever worked in outside of El Paso, TX and Newark, NJ. Being a nurse is immensely terrifying once you figure out how lazy and uneducated some of your colleagues are.
When i was at Hospital I was yelling at top of lungs in pain &.staff ingnored me they were not even buisy-they were sitting at the counter accross from me talking to each other about their life the others watching anfootball game, so i got up took my iv fluid thing with me went to counter I told them Im still feeling exstreme nausea that they're nausea medication did not work on me at all and they just continue to ignore me so it's half the time it's profit the other half is they just don't care The Gaslight patience
Hospitals being greedy its a gaslighting money market-
welcome to capitalism, you wanted to privatize everything to corporations, all you health and well being is now under the mercy of some billionaire whose greed is cutting every little corners to make more bucks. goes around, come around america
The magic word's (FOR PROFIT) answers all the questions.
I worked as a telemetry tech in college (thankfully at a higher quality hospital than this). Telemetry techs are paid little more than minimum wage – this health system could have easily hired more staff.
The alarms are going off all the time in hospitals. 02 monitors that are loose on the finger. BP cuffs that don't fit quite right. Leeds with sticky pads that get disconnected. Sit in a hospital ER for hours and you'll hear the alarms going off every 5 minutes. And a few staff are expected to serve all of the patients that show up unpredictably. Unless a particular patient is under emergency observation constantly by dedicated staff, there is just no way to keep up with the alarms. They would need to hire people to just constantly monitor the alarms at each station, and then check on them immediately. Since most of those alarms are random non-emergencies, I'm not sure the hospitals will be willing to dedicate that much staff time to it? If you want to keep your family safe, you have to stay by their side during their emergencies. No one will be able to dedicate as much time and attention to them as you. That's been my experience.
Frankly, Capitalism in Health Care only serves the Wealthy and Healthcare Corporations
Society is owned by criminals that create wars and some pandemics on purpose. We need some accountability and explanations to why our own governments have lied to us so much. Sold us out and purposely divides and makes us dumb oh purpose. It's for profit and control but there is a deeper anti human agenda that is clearly going on. Also the toxic food isn't cool 😕.
We are free once we come together peacefully and force this system to finally work for it's own people. Instead of being overt criminals in the worst sense. 😒
Profits must come first and cutting pennies here and there is the name of the game today. Profit not lives are cherished.