Nurse_KBE

In Singapore, we also do advice our cardiac cath patients to complete rest in bed for 6 hrs,not to bend,strain or lift heavy objects during this time & not to sit upright.Now some of the senior cardiologists or the more experience ones are doing cardiac cath thru the artery or a vein of the arm so the patients does not need to be complete rest in bed and can ambulate to the toilet.But here majority cases,we still do it at the groin area.So we still have to advice patients like above.

yup and although I don't work in the Intensive Care Unit, as a nurse working in the ward, a lot of my patients on telemetry are being monitored by ICU. And there have been times that if the leads are off from the patient, the ECG reading at ICU is not accurate or there will be no reading.In Singapore, we would always call ICU if our patient would be having a bath and would take out the telemetry so that the nurses monitoring won't be panic.This is some of the stories I knew about telemetry.Just wanna share with all of you.