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
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Infographic: Medical Device Alarm Safety
This educational flyer can be used to help train staff and physicians on the problems related to alarm safety.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.