Novel Approach to Cardiac Alarm Management on Telemetry Units

Conclusions: Alarms with self-reset capabilities may result in an excess number of audible alarms and clinical alarm fatigue. By eliminating self-resetting alarms, the volume of audible alarms and associated clinical alarm fatigue can be significantly reduced without requiring additional resources or technology or compromising patient safety and lead to improvement in both staff and patient satisfaction.
Source: Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing - Category: Nursing Tags: Articles: Online Only Source Type: research