Clinical alarms and alarm fatigue in a University Hospital Emergency Department-A retrospective data analysis.

Juho O JämsäKimmo H UutelaAnna-Maija TapperLasse Lehtonen

Published in: Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (2021)

Alarm sound load, from individual alarm sounds, was nearly continuous in an emergency department observation room equipped with nine monitors. Intervention by the staff to the alarms was infrequent. More than half of the alarms were momentary.

Keyphrases

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