[tunap]

>"people need to sleep"

Sleep is almost impossible with regular check-ups... 30 min or 60 min, don't remember. Excepting the comatose and most medicated(maybe not?), a person's sleep cycle is unable to reach REM when a stranger approaches and fiddles on regular intervals. I would think monitoring from afar(sensors, cameras) would be more beneficial, but I was informed the liability factors preclude such remote monitoring.

edit: to add context, I slept in the room on separate occasions with 2 family members. While tests were not performed, the regular checks were mandated. I was exhausted after my shifts ended.

[QuercusMax]

Last time I was in the hospital (in 2016 with a broken arm) it was very difficult to sleep because the bed had some device that pokes you every so often to make sure you don't develop bedsores from lying too still.

This makes sense for someone who might be in there for weeks, but I was barely there overnight!

[tomcam]

Nightmarish yet darkly comical. Sort of torture adjacent…

[ThePadawan]

More than 10 years ago now, I was in the ICU for myocarditis, leading to bradycardia, a very slow heart rate.

During the night, it would drop to 40 (which is still fine), but sometimes below 30, at which point my heart monitor would blare an alarm, waking me up and scaring the absolute bejesus out of me, raising my heart rate immensely. A nurse would walk in, see that I was fine, and leave again.

This occurred nightly for a few days.

[throwaway2037]

I don't understand this post. It reads like "have your cake and eat it too". The the heart monitor did not blare an alarm, maybe you died. Which one do you want?

[ThePadawan]

The alarm to go off in the nurses' station so they could investigate.