Though still refusing nursing checks and cardiac monitoring, he remained in his room overnight.
The device and Web technology, he said, "could be used for cardiac monitoring; it could be used for glucose monitoring".
However, they will not initiate cardiac monitoring or administer chest compressions, artificial respiration, defibrillation, or cardioversion.
Next, I went to VitalCom, which made wireless cardiac monitoring systems for hospital patients.
Ten days before Brant and Mora met, Qahtani's heart rate had dropped so precipitately, to thirty-five beats a minute, that he required cardiac monitoring.
I first heard the name syndrome X from a patient, a burly Russian man with a thick accent whom I admitted to the cardiac monitoring unit late one night when I was a resident.
In an e-mail, Xenakis told me, "The clinical picture indicates that the combined effects of the interrogation over December 4-7 contributed to significant physical and metabolic symptoms such that he required close cardiac monitoring.
Virtually every ED (92%) had cardiac monitoring available immediately.
Thus, the lack of micro-sized implantable telemetry systems for cardiac monitoring remains an important problem.
Cardiac monitoring facilities had been available in most EDs for many years.
Cardiac monitoring and intravenous ceftriaxone or penicillin G should be strongly considered in these patients [2].
