stackyFACTSLong before we had smartwatches nagging us about our heart rates, the Victoreen Instrument Company patented early remote cardiac telemetry purely because checking pulses manually was a drag on hospital efficiency.
Long before we had smartwatches nagging us about our heart rates, the Victoreen Instrument Company patented early remote cardiac telemetry purely because checking pulses manually was a drag on hospital efficiency. They wired up patients in early ICUs to central nursing stations so staff could aggressively monitor irregular heartbeats without actually having to walk into the patient's room, birthing modern remote patient surveillance by accident.
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