Ring….Ding….Buzz……RING……DING……BUZZZ……RING……..
Medical
Devices have been created to notify a care team if the patient condition has slipped
outside of the desired parameters. The
alarms are essential to provide safe care for patients. The challenge is that when a device cries
wolf (even if it’s reacting the way it was designed to react) that the care
team begins to become fatigued….the more fatigued they are the higher the risk
to patients.
There have
been a number of solutions applied to the issue – everything from large
technology investments to seek a better balance of “right alarm, right person,
right time” to centralized alarm command centers to reduce the interruptions on
the floor to simply creating policies that enable consistency on how alarms are
to be treated and reacted too.
Join
Commission is focusing on challenges to the care teams caused by ALARM FATIGUE.
I will be
hosting a panel discussion providing the HOSPITAL perspective…no vendors....at
the 5th Annual Medical Device Connectivity Conference
Jennifer Jackson, Director
of Clinical Engineering & Device Integration
Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center
Marni Chandler-Nicoli RN, MPH, Intensive
Medicine Clinical Program Manager
InterMountain Healthcare Clinical
Operations
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more and register to join us!
