THE first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States took a turn for the worse on Saturday, slipping from serious to critical condition in a Dallas hospital. Meanwhile, health officials reported tracking scores of possible cases around the country that proved to be false alarms. The case ...
This study identifies existing disparities in rapid response team implementation and education across Texas hospitals.doi:10.1016/j.chest.2017.08.361Kunadu, AfuaOjinna, OnyekaMantoo, SonaliBradley, PamelaBrutus, CarolBuen, MagdalenaDeVita, Michael...
Managing alarms in critical care is not only time-consuming and costly, but also leads to alarm fatigue which occurs when caregivers become desensitized to alarm alerts, causing missed alarms or a delayed response. Alarm fatigue can even be held accountable for patient death.[1]. Mindray's ...
Even when discrimination is high, the threshold chosen for alerts may result in suboptimal sensitivity or excessive false alarms [40]. Balancing sensitivity with false alarms and lead time for alerts remains a persistent challenge, and the optimal balance varies by use case [41]. Also, ...
In addition, a Spartan™ Sound Level Meter was used to evaluate the change in sound levels as experienced by patients when moving monitor alarms away from the head of the bed. To test this, we placed the sound level meter next to the left ear of a simulation mannequin. We then ...
20.Alarms in the intensive care unit: how can the number of false alarms be reduced? 机译:重症监护室中的警报:如何减少误警报的数量? 作者:Marie-Christine Chambrin 期刊名称:《Critical Care》 | 2001年第4期 关键词: critical care false alarm patient monitoring; 21.Optimizing antibiotic therapy...
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Poor lighting, alarms with low sensitivity, and similar sounds for different warnings, poorly placed equipment, and a multitude of cords and tubes have been cited as physical factors adding to the stressful environment of the ICU [6, 10]. ICUs also produce a large amount of patient data (i...
subsequent certification of the ventilator as a medical device. Other requirements should be met during construction of ventilator including the international standard for critical care ventilators (ISO 80601-2-12:2020) and related documents, especially in terms of safety features, monitoring, alarms ...
The alarms of medical devices are a matter of concern in critical and perioperative care. The frequent false alarms not only are a nuisance for patients an... M Imhoff,S Kuhls - 《Anesthesia & Analgesia》 被引量: 415发表: 2006年 Critical care algorithms. Pulmonary artery and central venous...