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Originally Posted by AF IDMT
I've never heard of one THAT bad. I probably would have had to check my own pulse right after his.  Funny thing about the term "quickly." In hindsight 40 seconds doesn't seem like much, but when it was going on I bet it felt like 4 minutes. |
I was talking to a nurse in the central station when it happened. The monitor alarmed and she sort of groped around behind herself to turn it off without looking while continuing the conversation -- basically completely ignored it. The hubub in the ward alerted us there was a problem. The 40 seconds was measured off the trace.
I was not amused, especially after having coughed up a quarter mil to outfit all the beds with state-of-the-art monitoring. That said, the monitors false-alarmed all the time.