Two outpatients were at the facility for scheduled aortograms.Because of an unanticipated breakdown of the patient monitoring equipment in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, both of the scheduled procedures were cancelled and the outpatients had to be rescheduled for the next day for their procedure.Staffing and workload adjustments were the immediate actions that needed to be taken because of this event.Contributing factor: technology issue.Biomedical engineering and it were able to replace an external control unit / module allowing the recording system to communicate and record vitals and import into the patient record.The repair took approximately four hours.
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