Medicine Telemetry Intermediate Care

This is a 28-bed unit including the capacity for 9 telemetry monitored beds and 18 intermediate care beds. The patient populations for this unit have a medical diagnosis with an underlying cardiac component that requires cardiac monitoring. The patients are all monitored both centrally by telemetry and at the bedside.

• The diagnoses treated include

• renal failure

• hepatic failure

• pneumonia

• asthma

• sickle cell crisis

• pancreatitis

• coronary artery disease

• congestive heart failure

• cardiac arrhythmia

• delirium tremens

• substance abuse

• tuberculosis

• GI bleed

• diabetes

• AIDS

• chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• fetal demise

• cystic fibrosis.

The patient population ranges in age from young adult to geriatric.

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