What are everyone's thoughts on having an extra monitor in the room for the RN's access to visibility of the EKG and HD's? I have a small cath lab with new, state of the art HD system and wondered why the RN wants to have an extra monitor for her to look at. I thought that since the RN is virtually circulating around the room and not sitting that she/he could easily watch the main large monitor over the table. I am not getting it. I don't want to be creating a situation where the patient is not monitored, but do not see why the added expense. Can someone share? I have never seen more than the table's screen in the cath lab.

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