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When the heart reaches 120 beats, a red signal lights up on the screen. “They are too many for an elderly woman who doesn’t move much now,” she explains Giovanni Capobiancohead of geriatrics at Sant’Eugenio in Rome.
“We immediately called the daughter. If you hadn’t answered, we would have alerted home care, ”he adds Paola Rossinia ward doctor who assists 16 patients in a hospital bed and as many in their bed at home.