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Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 1/2015

Open Access 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 | Special Issue 1/2015

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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. …
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Title
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
Publication date
01-12-2015
Publisher
BioMed Central
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-23-S1-A41

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