Improving Alarm Performance In The Medical Intensive Care Unit

Improving alarm performance in the medical intensive …

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Suctioning, washing, repositioning, and oral care caused 152 ignored or ineffective ventilator alarms. Discussion: Introducing a 19-s alarm delay and automatically detecting suctioning, repositioning, oral care, and washing could reduce the number of ineffective and ignored …

Improving Alarm Performance in the Medical Intensive …

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Improving Alarm Performance in the Medical Intensive Care Unit Using Delays and Clinical Context METHODS. Approval was obtained from the University of Utah Health Sciences …

Nine Nurse-Recommended Design Strategies to Improve …

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Improving alarm performance in the medical intensive …

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The phenomenon of alert fatigue, in which clinicians ignore safety reminders that are excessively frequent or clinically insignificant, has been well documented in the …

Improving alarm performance in the medical intensive …

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On average, alarms occurred 6.07 times per hour and were active for 3.28 min per hour; 23% were effective, 36% were ineffective, and 41% were ignored. The median …

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Analysis, consulting, training and reporting services paired with configurable alarm technologies and tailored to your organization. Visual and audible alarms in critical care environments can be a …

Reducing the Safety Hazards of Monitor Alert and Alarm …

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Techniques shown to decrease the number of alarms include changing the alarm default settings to match the patient population on the floor and further customizing …

Clinical Alarm Management | Philips Healthcare

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Visual and audible alarms in critical care environments can be a contributor to medical errors, and can cause unnecessary stress and burden on caregivers and patients.1 Some caregivers are flooded with …

Improving Alarm Performance in the Medical Intensive …

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On average, alarms occurred 6.07 times per hour and were active for 3.28 min per hour; 23% were effective, 36% were ineffective, and 41% were ignored. The median …

Intensive care unit alarms--how many do we need?

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Objective: To validate cardiovascular alarms in critically ill patients in an experimental setting by generating a database of physiologic data and clinical alarm annotations, and …