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Medicine Telemetry Intermediate Care

This is a 27-bed unit including the capacity for 18 telemetry monitored beds and nine intermediate beds. The patient populations for this unit have a medical diagnosis with an underlying cardiac component that they need cardiac monitoring. The patients are either centrally monitored by telemetry or need higher level monitoring at the bedside. Patient populations range in ages from 18 years to the mature.

The diagnoses are:

  • renal failure,
  • pneumonia,
  • asthma,
  • sickle cell crisis,
  • pancreatitis,
  • angina,
  • cardiac arrhythmia,
  • delirium tremors,
  • substance abuse,
  • tuberculosis,
  • GI bleed,
  • Diabetes,
  • AIDS,
  • obstructive pulmonary disease,
  • fetal demise and
  • Cystic fibrosis.

 

News and events

November 1-2 , 2007

Workshop: Critical Care End-of-Life Education Consortium (ELNEC) Workshop

November 5 , 2007

Conference: 18th Annual LPN Conference: Learning To Meet Patient Needs

November 16 , 2007

Conference: 8th Annual Heart Matters Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Nursing & Allied Health


 

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Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center • Nursing
1250 East Marshall Street • Richmond, Virginia 23298-0510 • Updated: 09/30/2005