How to Read Patient Monitors | 合法醫療器材資訊網

2020年6月23日—Ifanyofthevitalsignsfalloutsideoftherangeofnormal,thepatientmonitorwillalertcliniciansbysoundinganalarmandflashingan ...

It’s your first day as a clerk in the Emergency Department and your staff has asked you to see an 80 year old patient with known COPD presenting with increasing shortness of breath. He reminds you to check the patient monitor when you go in there to look for any abnormalities and to record a new set of vitals on the chart.

Patient monitors can be overwhelming early in your training when you’re not quite sure what you’re looking at. There are so many numbers, waveforms, and sounds – how are you supposed to know what is what? When you’re in a busy Emergency Department, it is important to be familiar with what a typical patient monitor looks like and how to interpret all of the components. Knowing the basics of patient monitor interpretation and ECG lead placement can make a junior clerk a valuable member of the Emergency Department team. 

Here is an example of a patient monitor. The typi...