![]() ![]() ![]() the frequency, types, and accuracy of physiologic monitor alarms Alarm fatigue occurs when clinicians are desensitized by collected in a ‘‘real-world’’ ICU setting. recalling hearing low heart rate alarms were indicative of alarm To date, there has not been a comprehensive investigation of fatigue which contributed to the patient’s death’’. In the investigation that ensued, the Centers a National Patient Safety Goal, and further regulations will be for Medicare and Medicaid Services reported: ‘‘Nurses not compulsory in 2016. In addition, the Joint multiple low heart rate alarms that occurred prior to the patient’s Commission that approves hospitals for accreditation issued an cardiac arrest, no-one working on the unit that day recalled alarm safety alert in 2013 in 2014, they established alarm safety as hearing the alarms. Despite one health technology hazard for 2014. For example, the Emergency Care Research Institute, a patient safety concern by the highly-publicized death of a patient leading nonprofit organization, lists alarm fatigue as the number who was being monitored at a prestigious medical center. issued alerts about alarm fatigue being a major patient safety In 2010, excessive alarm burden was exposed by the press as a concern. agencies and national organizations have their 8–12 hour shift causing excessive alarm burden.
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