The proportion of clinically relevant alarms decreases as patient clinical severity decreases in intensive care units: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine (1) the proportion and number of clinically relevant alarms based on the type of monitoring device; (2) whether patient clinical severity, based on the sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score, affects the proportion of clinically relevant alarms and to suggest; (3) methods for reducing clinically irrelevant alarms in an intensive care unit (ICU).

Design

A prospective, observational clinical study.

Setting

A medical ICU at the University of Tokyo Hospital in Tokyo, Japan.

Participants

All patients who were admitted directly to the ICU, aged ≥18 years, and not refused active treatment were registered between January and February 2012.

Methods

The alarms, alarm settings, alarm messages, waveforms and video recordings were ac

SUBMITTER: Inokuchi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3773633 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature