It seems like a good general idea to make alarms more patient-friendly, and try to reduce 'alarm fatigue' for the staff at hospitals, though I do worry that if they go too far with trying to make...
It seems like a good general idea to make alarms more patient-friendly, and try to reduce 'alarm fatigue' for the staff at hospitals, though I do worry that if they go too far with trying to make alarms more friendly, it could lead to missing them entirely. It would definitely be a balancing act between the alarms being too obnoxious and people not noticing them, and I feel that it warrants some serious research to find the optimum set up.
Care Nurses found that from 72% to 99% of all hospital alarms were false.
It sounds like addressing the false alarm issue might be a good first step, if most of the alarms are false positives in the first place. It looks like people are starting to look into this, and asking for change, which is a good sign. Hopefully they continue to explore ideas, test them, and implement the best as a new standard going forward.
The false alarms definitely seem like a good place to start. I would love to see more research there. Medical care always errors on the side of safety, so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these...
The false alarms definitely seem like a good place to start. I would love to see more research there. Medical care always errors on the side of safety, so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these are known false alarms but a "we better check it out to be sure anyway".
I had a coworker work on some monitor for a hospital, and it really was the most annoying thing ever, and at the time, I worked in a lab with a billion computers, machines and various equipment beeping and flashing at me all day. The medical devices were specifically designed to be really difficult to ignore. Can't imagine working in an environment surrounded by that all day.
It seems like a good general idea to make alarms more patient-friendly, and try to reduce 'alarm fatigue' for the staff at hospitals, though I do worry that if they go too far with trying to make alarms more friendly, it could lead to missing them entirely. It would definitely be a balancing act between the alarms being too obnoxious and people not noticing them, and I feel that it warrants some serious research to find the optimum set up.
It sounds like addressing the false alarm issue might be a good first step, if most of the alarms are false positives in the first place. It looks like people are starting to look into this, and asking for change, which is a good sign. Hopefully they continue to explore ideas, test them, and implement the best as a new standard going forward.
The false alarms definitely seem like a good place to start. I would love to see more research there. Medical care always errors on the side of safety, so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these are known false alarms but a "we better check it out to be sure anyway".
I had a coworker work on some monitor for a hospital, and it really was the most annoying thing ever, and at the time, I worked in a lab with a billion computers, machines and various equipment beeping and flashing at me all day. The medical devices were specifically designed to be really difficult to ignore. Can't imagine working in an environment surrounded by that all day.