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Anesth Analg
; 130(1): e9-e13, 2020 01.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-30234538
ABSTRACT
Ventilator alarms have long been presumed to contribute substantially to the overall alarm burden in the intensive care unit. In a prospective observational study, we determined that each ventilator triggered an alarm cascade of up to 8 separate notifications once every 6 minutes. In 1 intensive care unit with different ventilator manufacturers, the distribution of high-priority alarms was manufacturer dependent with 8.6% of alarms from 1 type and 89.8% of alarms from another type of ventilator. Alarm limits were not a function of patient-specific ventilator settings.
Subject(s)
Clinical Alarms , Intensive Care Units , Respiration, Artificial/instrumentation , Ventilators, Mechanical , Baltimore , Equipment Failure , Humans , Prospective Studies , Respiration, Artificial/adverse effects , Time Factors , Workload
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Biomed Instrum Technol
; 51(5): 390-397, 2017.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28934585