Quiet, Please! Minimizing Alarm Fatigue and Maximizing Safe Patient Care
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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