Decreasing Use of Continuous Pulse Oximetry in Pediatric Inpatients Lavanya G. Shankar, MD, Lurie Children’s at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital. Abstract Text: Background: Pediatric inpatients with simple respiratory diagnoses and hypoxia do not have clear guidelines on when Continuous Pulse Oximetry (CPO) may be discontinued after initially being placed. As a result, patients who have been [...]

Background: Excess alarms cause a phenomenon, known as alarm fatigue, in which medical providers become desensitized to constant noise emitted from monitors & fail to notice or react to alarms which can lead to patient safety concerns. With the acceleration of remote monitoring & monitoring hubs, it is critical to minimize unactionable alarms and prevent [...]

Background: Telemetry is widely used in hospitalized settings for the detection of cardiac arrhythmias. Our hospital uses an electronic telemetry to curb unnecessary telemetry use. The AHA has identified the utility of telemetry in non-cardiac conditions as an area of future research. We studied the telemetry ordering patterns of patients admitted with diagnosis of COVID-19 [...]