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In my hospital, we do not have the capability to do telemetry on our labor delivery unit. We could directly get a monitor in there, but their concern is that it's not hooked up to the central monitoring. And so for these patients that we do, maybe one month or so, we will do them in the medical intensive care unit. On the floor directly below the labor and delivery unit. What happens is that a labor and delivery nurse goes down to take care of the patient and the ICU. Then we also have an ICU nurse who's taking cared of the patient to do the telemetry monitoring. So I think probably individually, depending on the provider and the patient as