Between 1983 and 2011, equipment-related alarms in critical care have increased from 6 to 40 different alarm types. As nurses become overwhelmed, distracted, or desensitized by noise, they may miss that could result patient harm. The findings of an infusion pump survey indicated overwhelmingly agree nuisance occur frequently disrupt care. But nurses' perceptions are those previously reported for clinical general. It not be appropriate broadly apply general management recommendations at this time.

Compliance with the use of smart pump libraries continues to be a challenge for hospitals, reported compliance rates as low 16% and few hospitals achieving 100%.1,2 To help drive safe practice, are equipped softand hard-dosing limits, bolus features, clinical advisories, alerts. However, clinicians frequently bypass, opt out, override, and/or work around these drug library parameters.1,3,4 Although reasons workarounds have not been elucidated completely, infusion alerts may play key role....

A 5-time designated Magnet academic medical center partnered with its infusion systems supplier to successfully integrate 1327 smart pumps across 45 departments an aggressive 3-month timeline. The team also achieved quality improvement (QI) outcomes through increased drug library compliance and decreased alerts their new technology.This large needed implement innovative wireless pump technology in a short time frame.The approach involved strong partnership from the supplier, extensive...

Reduction of clinical alarms is a priority due to alarm fatigue and the high incidence nonactionable alarms, especially those generated from physiological monitors. However, research on infusion pump types frequencies limited. The purpose this study was establish baseline for duration in hospital setting. Frequency across 29 hospitals using 11,410 pumps revealed 987,240 associated with 568,164 infusions during consecutive 60-day period. Pump accounted only 0.8% time, an average 1.74 per...

The variety of alarms from all types medical devices has increased 6 to 40 in the last three decades, with today's most critically ill patients experiencing as many 45 per hour. Alarm fatigue been identified a critical safety issue for clinical staff that can lead potentially dangerous delays or nonresponse actionable alarms, resulting serious patient injury and death. To date, research on device focused nonactionable physiological monitoring devices. While there have some reports literature...

<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> The variety of alarms from all types medical devices has increased 6 to 40 in the last three decades, with today’s most critically ill patients experiencing as many 45 per hour. Alarm fatigue been identified a critical safety issue for clinical staff that can lead potentially dangerous delays or nonresponse actionable alarms, resulting serious patient injury and death. To date, research on device focused nonactionable physiological monitoring devices. While...