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01-12-2015 | Meeting abstract
Monitor alarms in the Emergency Department are frequent and unequally distributed during a day
Authors:
Thomas Schmidt, Camilla LN Bech, Marianne Glud, Uffe Kock Wiil, Annmarie Lassen
Published in:
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
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Special Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
Audible alarms from monitoring equipment in the Emergency Department add to the overall noise level in the department, may cause alarm fatigue of clinicians, and in the worst case to an undetected deterioration in a hospitalized patient. Our aim with this study is to describe the use of electronic monitoring in the Emergency Department, the distribution of generated audible alarms, and to uncover temporal patterns in monitoring. …