‘My Watch Thinks I’m Dead’
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Showing posts with label alarms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alarms. Show all posts
Saturday, April 29, 2023
Monday, February 25, 2019
Monitor Alarm are still in the ECRI Institute top 10 health technology hazards
The ECRI Institute published its 2019 top 10 health technology hazards, and physiologic monitor alarm are still on this list.
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Alarms in healthcare - not much has changed
The conclusions of this 2014 study - "Since 2005–2006 when the first survey was conducted, not much has changed. False alarms continue to contribute to a noisy hospital environment, and sentinel events related to alarm fatigue persist. Alarm hazards are a significant patient safety issue."
Monday, March 24, 2014
Technology has gotten out of control
Alarms in healthcare are not a new issue, and most of the work is still ahead of us.
But what caught my eye in this NPR report is the Joint Commission's chief medical officer (Dr. McKee) quote - "technology has gotten out of control" -
Still, accordion to the Join Commission report, new requirements will be implemented as early as 2016.
Will these new instruction solve the problem?
As long as we continue to look at the technology part of the system without looking at the operator that use the technology, we will not get to a working solution. Our user has his limitations, and the amount of alarms (s)he can response to is limited. Alarm system that will not take this into consideration will always leave the system below its optimal point.
But what caught my eye in this NPR report is the Joint Commission's chief medical officer (Dr. McKee) quote - "technology has gotten out of control" -
Still, accordion to the Join Commission report, new requirements will be implemented as early as 2016.
Will these new instruction solve the problem?
As long as we continue to look at the technology part of the system without looking at the operator that use the technology, we will not get to a working solution. Our user has his limitations, and the amount of alarms (s)he can response to is limited. Alarm system that will not take this into consideration will always leave the system below its optimal point.
photo source - NPR
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