Epidemiology of patient monitoring alarms in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Taibo LiMinoru MatsushimaWendy TimpsonSusan YoungDavid MiedemaMunish GuptaThomas Heldt

Published in: Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association (2018)

The alarm burden in this NICU population is very significant; the average alarm rate significantly underrepresents alarm rates at low and high PMA and BW. Virtually all critical arrhythmia alarms were artifactual.

Keyphrases

preterm infants
risk factors
case report