CENTRALIZED CARDIAC TELEMETRY MONITORING SLASHES ALARM FATIGUE, SAVES LIVES!

Hospitals have long suffered with “alarm fatigue,” when busy staff become desensitized to the constant noise emanating from cardiac telemetry monitoring systems. While less than 10 percent of the alerts are immediately clinically relevant, important warning signs can be missed in the din of nuisance pings: According to the American Herat Association (AHA), fewer than 1 in 4 adults survived an in-hospital cardiac arrest in 2013, and prior studies found that up to 44 percent of inpatient cardiac arrest are not detected appropriately.

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