Protecting Sleep in the Hospital, for Both Patients and Doctors

Re:Protecting Sleep in the Hospital, for Both Patients and D... by joshgel on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @08:35AM (#20103718)

I'm really excited about [0], but as far as I know there is no way to take blood pressure without touching the patient. If someone here could invent it, I could probably provide a test environment for large scale investigations.

Re: studies. I can't say I know the evidence that well, so I wouldn't want to mislead, this isn't my area. A google search for Hourly Rounding reveals lots of articles, but I haven't poked into the underlying data that proves it is a successful strategy (if that exists). I guess I overstated my confidence above.

[0]: http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/

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Re:Protecting Sleep in the Hospital, for Both Patients and D... by eitally on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @09:27AM (#20104089)

For blood pressure, our experience was that the staff were perfectly happy to leave a cuff on our daughter's leg, which automatically took a reading every hour (or on demand).

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Re:Protecting Sleep in the Hospital, for Both Patients and D... by joshgel on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @06:25PM (#20109751)

For some patients, with vascular disease for example, the blood pressure cuff can be very painful... (What you describe is usually what we do.)

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