• Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am · Jun 2006

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    Practice standards for ECG monitoring in hospital settings: executive summary and guide for implementation.

    • Barbara J Drew and Marjorie Funk.
    • School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, 2 Koret Way, San Francisco, CA 94143-0610, USA. barbara.drew@nursing.ucsf.edu
    • Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am. 2006 Jun 1;18(2):157-68, ix.

    AbstractCurrent goals of hospital ECG monitoring are to diagnose cardiac arrhythmias, acute myocardial ischemia, and drug-induced prolonged QT interval. Recently, experts in the field of electrocardiology and cardiac monitoring convened to develop a practice standard for hospital ECG monitoring. This executive summary reviews key elements of the practice standard and answers questions that often arise when clinicians try to implement them.

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