Intensive care unit nurses' perceptions and practices regarding clinical alarms: A descriptive study [PDF]
Nursing Open, 2023 Aim To describe the frequencies of physiologic monitor clinical alarms and to investigate nurses' perceptions and practices regarding clinical alarms in ICUs. Design A descriptive study.
Lei Wang +6 more
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Assessment of nurses interventions in the Management of Clinical Alarms in the critical care unit, Kenyatta National Hospital, a cross sectional study [PDF]
BMC Nursing, 2017 Background Alarms in the critical areas are an important component of most of the machines as they alert nurses on the change in the patients’ condition.
Lucy W. Meng’anyi +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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Faster clinical response to the onset of adverse events: A wearable metacognitive attention aid for nurse triage of clinical alarms. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 ObjectiveThis study evaluates the potential for improving patient safety by introducing a metacognitive attention aid that enables clinicians to more easily access and use existing alarm/alert information.
Daniel C McFarlane +5 more
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Enhancing Clinical Decision-Making in Pediatric Monitoring: Learning Threshold Alarm Patterns to Predict Critical Illness [PDF]
BioengineeringBackground: Patient monitors assist caregivers in identifying deterioration earlier by using threshold alarms. Not all of the threshold alarms necessitate immediate action, but some are a result of the triggering of a physiological event.
Christina Chiziwa +6 more
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Clinical Alarm Management in Terms of Knowledge and Practices Among Palestinian Critical Care Nurses in the West Bank [PDF]
SAGE Open NursingIntroduction Inadequate nursing management of critical area alarms negatively impacts patients’ health and increases the risk of adverse outcomes. There is a lack of studies examining clinical alarm management-related knowledge and practices among ...
Fuad Farajalla MSN +3 more
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Hemodialysis equipment malfunction incidence and risk profiling in clinical settings: a retrospective single-center cohort analysis [PDF]
BioMedical Engineering OnLineBackground Hemodialysis equipment alarms significantly impact clinical workflow and patient safety. This study aimed to characterize alarm patterns, identify risk factors, and evaluate management effectiveness in hemodialysis facilities.
Junjie Wang, Tingting Xu
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Impact of clinical alarms on patient safety from nurses’ perspective
Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 2022 Introduction: Technology has been tremendously helpful for healthcare professionals in various ways, such as vital signs monitoring, medication administration, and ventilation.
Sarah Alsuyayfi, Abdullah Alanazi
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Investigación y Educación en Enfermería, 2021 Objective. To evaluate the effects of application of a manual on the improvement of alarms management in Intensive Care Units (ICU). Methods. This quasi-experimental study evaluated the effectiveness of the introduction into of a manual for alarm ...
Amirhossein Yousefinya +4 more
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A Pilot Study of the Effectiveness of Medical Emergency System Implementation at a Single Center in Korea [PDF]
Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2017 Background An automatic alarm system was developed was developed for unexpected vital sign instability in admitted patients to reduce staffing needs and costs related to rapid response teams.
Su Hwan Lee +7 more
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