Hospital wards are dangerous. Indeed, they are where most unexpected deaths occur within the hospital. Most patients do not suddenly deteriorate. Vital signs are often abnormal, or trending toward abnormal range, hours before life threatening events happen.
Helps “Aside from close monitoring and continuously referring to the Anaesthetic team, it is very stressful because this can lead to cardiac arrest and death. Mentally exhausting, sad and disappointing if a patient leads to death.”
-Recovery Nurse
1. The above nurse testimonials relate to a market research commissioned by GE Healthcare to IQVIA and have been conducted according to patient data privacy, agreement and GDPR rules.