Mitch Keamy is an anesthesiologist in Las Vegas Nevada
Andy Kofke is a Professor of Neuro-anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennslvania
Mike O'Connor is Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Chicago
Rob Dean is a cardiac anesthesiologist in Grand Rapids Michigan, with extensive experience in O.R. administration.
Why is it in 2012 that we still occasionally encounter patients found unexpectedly dead in bed in a modern hospital? Such incidents of delayed discovery create difficulty with successful resuscitation and if successful the patient may not wake up. Moreover, if a patient is transferred recently from ICU or he/she is triaged, then litigation can be problematic. We need to invest in buying or developing wireless monitors on all nonICU patients in the hospital which will reliably detect hypoxemia/malignant arrhythmia . The system will page or otherwise notify the nurse when something is amiss so a rapid code or rapid response team can be called
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