Is redundancy in vital signs monitoring useful?

AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2007 Oct 11:923.

Abstract

During an ongoing study of wireless vital signs monitoring of post-triage patients with SMART [1] in the waiting area of the emergency department (ED) at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, we observed that redundancy in vital signs monitoring can be advantageous.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Computers, Handheld
  • Electrocardiography / instrumentation
  • Emergency Service, Hospital
  • Heart Rate
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / instrumentation
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / methods*
  • Oximetry
  • Tachycardia, Ectopic Junctional / diagnosis
  • Telemetry