Electrocardiography monitor alarms: Is customization of alarms ready for prime time in an intensive care setting?

Customization of electrocardiography (ECG) alarm parameters, to discriminate between true and false ECG alarms, sounds like an important intervention to combat the problem of false or nuisance ECG alarms. But is alarm customization a valuable intervention? Before commenting on what we've learned from the paper by Ruppel et  al.1 published in this issue, let's assess what we know from the literature about ECG alarms.
Source: Heart and Lung - Category: Intensive Care Authors: Source Type: research