Monitor alarm fatigue: standardizing use of physiological monitors and decreasing nuisance alarms.

Decreasing Nuisance Alarms Monitor Alarm Fatigue : Standardizing Use of Physiological Monitors

Changes in Default Alarm Settings and Standard In-Service are Insufficient to Improve Alarm Fatigue in an Intensive Care Unit: A Pilot Project.

BACKGROUND Clinical alarm systems safety is a national concern, specifically in intensive care units (ICUs) where alarm rates are known to be the highest. Interventional projects that examined the effect of changing default alarm settings on overall alarm rate and on clinicians' attitudes and practices toward clinical alarms and alarm fatigue are scarce. OBJECTIVE To examine if (1) a change i...

A Petri-net Model for Operational Cycle in SCADA Systems

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system monitors and controls industrial processes in critical infrastructures (CIs) and plays the vital role in maintaining the reliability of CIs such as power, oil, and gas system. In fact, SCADA system refers to the set of control process, which measures and monitors sensors in remote substations from a control center. These sensors usually ha...

Improved Filtering of Pulse Oximeter Monitoring Alarms in the Neonatal ICU: Bedside Significance.

BACKGROUND The OxiMax N-600x containing SatSeconds alarm management software was designed to assist clinicians in discriminating nuisance alarms from those that are clinically relevant. Instead of sounding an alarm the moment the oxygen saturation reading violates the upper or lower limit settings, a magnitude and duration of tolerance can be set. The primary objective was to study the proporti...

Insights into the Problem of Alarm Fatigue with Physiologic Monitor Devices: A Comprehensive Observational Study of Consecutive Intensive Care Unit Patients

PURPOSE Physiologic monitors are plagued with alarms that create a cacophony of sounds and visual alerts causing "alarm fatigue" which creates an unsafe patient environment because a life-threatening event may be missed in this milieu of sensory overload. Using a state-of-the-art technology acquisition infrastructure, all monitor data including 7 ECG leads, all pressure, SpO(2), and respiration...