A call to alarms: Current state and future directions in the battle against alarm fatigue

Research demonstrates that the majority of alarms derived from continuous bedside monitoring devices are non-actionable. This avalanche of unreliable alerts causes clinicians to experience sensory overload when attempting to sort real from false alarms, causing desensitization and alarm fatigue, which in turn leads to adverse events when true instability is neither recognized nor attended to despite the alarm. The scope of the problem of alarm fatigue is broad, and its contributing mechanisms are numerous.

Source: Journal of Electrocardiology - July 28, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Marilyn Hravnak, Tiffany Pellathy, Lujie Chen, Artur Dubrawski, Anthony Wertz, Gilles Clermont, Michael R. Pinsky Tags: Review Source Type: research