Defining the incidence of cardiorespiratory instability in patients in step-down units using an electronic integrated monitoring system.

Marilyn Hravnak; Leslie Edwards; Amy Clontz; Cynthia Valenta; Michael A. DeVita; Michael R. Pinsky

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Defining the incidence of cardiorespiratory instability in patients in step-down units using an electronic integrated monitoring system.

December 17, 2008

Hravnak M, Edwards L, Clontz A, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2008;168(12):1300-8.

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A continuous physiologic monitoring system appeared to detect physiologic instability earlier than standard monitoring techniques. Prior research has questioned the false negative rate of such systems, but that problem was not noted in this study.

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