Clinical Alarms Toolkit

This educational flyer can be used to help train staff and physicians on the problems related to alarm safety. The flyer, from The Joint Commission, outlines recommendations for combating the problem as outlined in Sentinel Event Alert #50.

This is the full Sentinel Event Alert on alarm safety published by The Joint Commission in 2013. This alert discusses the problems identified through reporting of events into The Joint Commission’s Sentinel Event database and includes recommendations for improvement.

The AAMI provides a variety of information on clinical alarm management based on experiences and advice from leading healthcare practitioners.

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

This resource helps coordinate an alarm performance improvement project related to pulse oximetry alarms in your organization. This toolkit walks you through the alarm management project from beginning to the final stage of implementation and gives recommendations for sustainability.

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.

Provides guidelines for the management of alarms in the operating arena.