Quiet, Please! Minimizing Alarm Fatigue and Maximizing Safe Patient Care
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Quality and Patient Safety, Procedures, 2020
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The Society of Critical Care Medicine's Critical Care Congress features internationally renowned faculty and content sessions highlighting the most up-to-date, evidence-based developments in critical care medicine. This is a presentation from the 2020 Critical Care Congress held February 16-19, 2020, in Orlando, Florida, USA.


Learning Objectives

  • Identify the different technologic distractions that clinicians are confronted with in the ICU environment
  • Compare successful methods that have safely decreased ICU alarms and technologic distractions
  • Evaluate the tipping point of swinging too far in the direction of too few critical alarms
  • Explain how to effectively implement and apply these techniques in your ICU
  • Describe new analytic programs to filter alarms

More Than the Monitor: How Many Alarms Do We Face in a Day in the ICU?

Sandra L. Kane-Gill

Successfully Decreasing Nuisance Alarms: Fantasy or Reality?

Jacqueline Y. Steuer

How Can I Implement Programs to Decrease Alert Fatigue in My ICU?

Bradford D. Winters

Leveraging New Technology to Filter Important Alarms

Barbara McLean

Meta Tag
Content Type Presentation
Knowledge Area Quality and Patient Safety
Knowledge Area Procedures
Knowledge Level Foundational
Membership Level Select
Membership Level Professional
Membership Level Associate
Tag Communication
Tag Monitoring
Year 2020
Keywords
alarm fatigue
ICU
patient safety
clinical response
monitoring
technology optimization
alarm settings
alarm rounds
contextuality of alarms
reductions
panel discussion
collaboration
equipment manufacturers
healthcare providers