TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - A call to alarms: current state and future directions in the battle against alarm fatigue
JO  - Journal of electrocardiology
A1  - Hravnak, Marilyn
A1  - Pellathy, Tiffany
A1  - Chen, Lujie
A1  - Dubrawski, Artur
A1  - Wertz, Anthony
A1  - Clermont, Gilles
A1  - Pinsky, Michael R.
SP  - S44
EP  - S48
VL  - 51
IS  - 6S
N2  - 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. Current and future approaches to defining and reacting to actionable and non-actionable alarms are being developed and investigated, but challenges in impacting alarm modalities, sensitivity and specificity, and clinical activity in order to reduce alarm fatigue and adverse events remain. A multi-faceted approach involving clinicians, computer scientists, industry, and regulatory agencies is needed to battle alarm fatigue.<br><br>Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-0736
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2018.07.024
ID  - ref1
ER  -