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Clinical Alarms

This clinical alarms toolkit offers information to help understand the current objectives and risks in clinical alarm safety from excessive alarms in the clinical setting to alarm/alert fatigue. Information is provided to help users understand the common causes of excessive alerts and alarms along with innovative strategies to reduce the risk of alarm overload.

Toolkit Materials

  • Infographic: Medical Device Alarm Safety

    This educational flyer can be used to help train staff and physicians on the problems related to alarm safety.

  • Sentinel Event Alert: Medical Device Alarm Safety in Hospitals

    This alert discusses the problems identified through reporting of events into The Joint Commission’s Sentinel Event database and includes recommendations for improvement.

  • 2011 Clinical Alarm Summit

    This report was developed from a meeting where healthcare professionals convened to discuss the problem of clinical alarm safety. The report presents the challenges, priorities and actions to be taken surrounding the concern for clinical alarm safety.

  • Sp02 Alarm Management Toolkit

    This toolkit walks you through the alarm management project from beginning to the final stage of implementation and gives recommendations for sustainability.

  • Statement On Principles For Alarm Management For Anesthesia Professionals

    This document sets forth policy and principles for alarm safety for anesthesia professions in the environments in which they care for patients. This information is useful when evaluating best practices in place related to the anesthesia professionals management of equipment and alarms.

Online Resources

Members-Only Toolkit Materials

  • Webinar: Reducing the Safety Hazards of Alert and Alarm Fatigue

    This webinar provides an overview of the current Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal on Clinical Alarm Safety. The speaker also discusses the impact of excessive alerts/alarms on patient safety and her organization’s journey to reducing the risk of patient harm with alert/alarm fatigue.

  • Presentation Slides: Reducing the Safety Hazards of Alert and Alarm Fatigue

    These slides accompany the “Reducing the safety Hazards of Alert and Alarm Fatigue” webinar and offer an outline of the presentation along with helpful tips to reducing alert/alarm fatigue.