Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

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.

This playbook provides a framework that can serve as a tool in addressing cybersecurity threats impacting medical devices and equipment with the potential to impact safe patient care and clinical operations. This comprehensive guide addresses medical device inventory, hazard vulnerability analysis, emergency operations plan, incident response, training and post-event reporting.

Healthcare organizations should take the possiblity of an active shooter event occuring in their facility very seriously. These resources provide key tactics on managing violent and disruptive behavior as a risk reduction process.

Active shooter training is vital for all staff in a healthcare organization as they are the eyes and ears of the facility. These resources help ensure staff are trained and prepared to address violent/aggressive behavior/situations.