Reduction of Nonactionable Alarms in Medical Intensive Care

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-2017

Publisher

Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation

Source Publication

Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology (BI&T)

Abstract

Alarm fatigue is described as desensitization of the clinician to alarms due to the number of false or nonactionable alarms. Nonactionable alarms can be defined as alarms that do not require an active clinical intervention. Due to the proliferation of medical devices and technology used to support the delivery of patient care, alarm fatigue is a frequent occurrence in critical care settings. An increase in the number of nonactionable alarms has contributed to clinician cognitive and sensory overload, which can lead to actionable alarm signals being silenced, ignored, or turned off inappropriately.

Comments

Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, Vol. 51, No. s2 (February 2017): 58-61. DOI. © 2017 AAMI.

Krista Knudson was affiliated with Yale University School of Nursing at the time of publication.

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