Odd. Both a nurse and technician could not differentiate between the waveform of extreme tachycardia and 'normal rate' (defined as 60-100bpm, sinus). You've established that the monitor was alarming...
I'm confused. The monitor tech observed Ventricular Tachycardia, informed the nurse, and got mad at the nurse because the patient self-converted back to the underlying rhythm? Or this scenario...
Once upon a time, I was a monitor tech at a Level 1 trauma center. Our telemetry unit was located in the CICU, consisted of 2-3 techs, monitoring well over 100 patients on multiple floors including...