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Article: Virtual ICU; Monitoring system maintains constant link to patients.(HEALTH)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- March 19, 2007
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Byline: Elizabeth Cooney
WORCESTER- This man is really sick, Dr. Craig Lilly murmured as he scanned the bank of six computer screens in front of him.
He scrolled through the notes made by doctors and nurses in the man's electronic medical record after seeing bands of yellow and red on a spreadsheet of vital signs and treatments.
The patient's blood pressure was dropping and his heart rate was rising, a trend that worried Dr. Lilly as he scanned through extensive documentation of his stay in an intensive care unit at the UMass Memorial Medical Center University campus.
He was pretty sure the ICU nurse was on top of the situation, ...