Perioperative patient safety and post-operative ward monitoring is an important topic. Could continuous monitoring potentially improve patient outcomes and reduce rapid response team activations? Can 24/7 monitoring for high-risk patients provide meaningful data and improve patient safety? With a focus upon “meaningful” how do we avoid “alarm fatigue”? Where is the research and what do the data tell us?

The paper we mention is here: https://doi.org/10.1080/13696998.2023.2219156

Presented by Desiree Chappell with Sadia Khan, Consultant Cardiologist at West Middlesex University Hospital and Marco Luchetti, Anesthesiologist and Medical Director for Patient Care Solutions at GE Healthcare, EMEA.

Like this? Check out our interview with Meera Joshi, Specialist registrar at Ashford and St Peter's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and clinical research fellow in the department of surgery cancer at Imperial College London here:

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