First-Year Experience With ICU-Led Remote Vital Sign Trend Monitoring in Selected Non-ICU Patients

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An ICU-led remote monitoring program used wearable devices to track selected non-ICU patients considered vulnerable to deterioration but not requiring ICU admission.
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From December 2024 through March 2026, 92 patients received 1,797 monitoring hours across 19 wards, with a 95.4% data capture rate.
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Remote monitoring detected deterioration in 11 patients who subsequently required ICU admission, while 7 other ICU admissions occurred without remote detection.
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Vital-sign abnormalities were absent in 39% of deterioration cases, and the authors described remote monitoring as supplementary to bedside assessment, not a substitute for nursing staff.
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The retrospective, single-hospital evaluation did not measure protocol adherence and included only monitored patients, limiting assessment of the approach’s overall efficiency and usefulness.

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