During the past several years, an interest has g r o w n i n u s i n g c o m m e r c i a l telecommunications techniques to supply Telemetry and Command (T&C) services. An initial study of this concept was performed for NASA in 1996[1]. Recently, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Operations Management Office (SOMO) has outlined plans to utilize satellite-based telec...

BACKGROUND Cardiac rhythm monitoring is widely applied on hospitalized patients. However, its value has not been evaluated systematically. METHODS This study considered the utility of our institutional telemetry guidelines in predicting clinically significant arrhythmias. A retrospective analysis was performed of 562 patients admitted to the telemetry unit. A total of 1932 monitoring days wer...