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Impact of Alarm Fatigue on the Work of Nurses in an Intensive Care Environment-A Systematic Review. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2020 Lewandowska K +5 more
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Australian Critical Care, 2023 BACKGROUND Excessive number of alarms and false and nonactionable alarms may lead to alarm fatigue. Alarm fatigue could easily contribute to burnout. Burnout may reduce nurses' sensitivity to alarms, thus affecting patients' safety due to insufficient ...
B. A. Nyarko +3 more
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Alarm fatigue: Can Indian intensive care unit nurses keep up with the noise and maintain their edge?
Muller Journal of Medical Sciences and Research, 2023 Alarm fatigue has become a significant concern for intensive care unit (ICU) nurses. The incessant flood of alarms can result in desensitization, negatively affecting both nurses and consequently, patient care.
Gopal Singh Charan
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Addressing vital sign alarm fatigue using personalized alarm thresholds [PDF]
Biocomputing 2018, 2017 Alarm fatigue, a condition in which clinical staff become desensitized to alarms due to the high frequency of unnecessary alarms, is a major patient safety concern. Alarm fatigue is particularly prevalent in the pediatric setting, due to the high level of variation in vital signs with patient age.
Sarah, Poole, Nigam, Shah
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Solving alarm fatigue with smartphone technology [PDF]
Nursing Critical Care, 2018 Abstract: Alarms were developed to improve patient safety, but alarm fatigue may put patients at higher risk for harm. This article recounts one acute care institution's search for a better alarm management solution using smartphone technology to replace its beeper-based system for telemetry alarm events.
Kathleen, Short, You Jay, Chung
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Contribution of Electrocardiographic Accelerated Ventricular Rhythm Alarms to Alarm Fatigue [PDF]
American Journal of Critical Care, 2019 Excessive electrocardiographic alarms contribute to "alarm fatigue," which can lead to patient harm. In a prior study, one-third of audible electrocardiographic alarms were for accelerated ventricular rhythm (AVR), and most of these alarms were false.
Suba, Sukardi +4 more
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Detecting False Alarms by Analyzing Alarm-Context Information: Algorithm Development and Validation
JMIR Medical Informatics, 2020 BackgroundAlthough alarm safety is a critical issue that needs to be addressed to improve patient care, hospitals have not given serious consideration about how their staff should be using, setting, and responding to clinical alarms.
Fernandes, Chrystinne +2 more
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Clinical Alarms in Intensive Care Units: Perceived Obstacles of Alarm Management and Alarm Fatigue in Nurses [PDF]
Healthcare Informatics Research, 2016 ObjectivesThe purpose of this descriptive study was to investigate the current situation of clinical alarms in intensive care unit (ICU), nurses' recognition of and fatigue in relation to clinical alarms, and obstacles in alarm management.MethodsSubjects
Ok Min Cho +3 more
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Online Türk Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi, 2023 Objective: This study was conducted to examine the psychometric properties of the Nurses’ Alarm Fatigue Questionnaire. Materials and Methods: In this methodological study, the sample consisted of 142 nurses working in neonatal and pediatric intensive ...
C. Kahraman, H. Başkale
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BMC NursingBackground Particularly, the medical devices utilized in specialized units such as intensive care units, along with their associated alarm sounds, can potentially induce compassion fatigue among nursing professionals.
Hamdiye Banu Katran +2 more
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