2011 Why Clinical Alarms Are a ‘Top Ten’ Hazard.docVIP

下载本文档

2
0
约2.34万字
约 10页
2018-01-14 发布于河南
举报
版权申诉

2011 Why Clinical Alarms Are a ‘Top Ten’ Hazard.doc

1、本文档共10页，可阅读全部内容。
2、原创力文档（book118）网站文档一经付费（服务费），不意味着购买了该文档的版权，仅供个人/单位学习、研究之用，不得用于商业用途，未经授权，严禁复制、发行、汇编、翻译或者网络传播等，侵权必究。
3、本站所有内容均由合作方或网友上传，本站不对文档的完整性、权威性及其观点立场正确性做任何保证或承诺！文档内容仅供研究参考，付费前请自行鉴别。如您付费，意味着您自己接受本站规则且自行承担风险，本站不退款、不进行额外附加服务；查看《如何避免下载的几个坑》。如果您已付费下载过本站文档，您可以点击这里二次下载。
4、如文档侵犯商业秘密、侵犯著作权、侵犯人身权等，请点击“版权申诉”（推荐），也可以打举报电话：400-050-0827(电话支持时间：9:00-18:30)。
5、该文档为VIP文档，如果想要下载，成为VIP会员后，下载免费。
6、成为VIP后，下载本文档将扣除1次下载权益。下载后，不支持退款、换文档。如有疑问请联系我们。
7、成为VIP后，您将拥有八大权益，权益包括：VIP文档下载权益、阅读免打扰、文档格式转换、高级专利检索、专属身份标志、高级客服、多端互通、版权登记。
8、VIP文档为合作方或网友上传，每下载1次，网站将根据用户上传文档的质量评分、类型等，对文档贡献者给予高额补贴、流量扶持。如果你也想贡献VIP文档。上传文档

2011 Why Clinical Alarms Are a ‘Top Ten’ Hazard

Why Clinical Alarms Are a ‘Top Ten’ Hazard:?How You Can Help Reduce the Risk James P.?Keller,?Rich?Diefes,?Kelly?Graham,?Mark?Meyers, and?Kathy?Pelczarski About the Authors James P. Keller, MS, is vice president of health technology evaluation and safety at the ECRI Institute. Email:?jkeller@ Richard Diefes, MS, is director of operations with the health devices group at ECRI Institute. Email:?rdiefes@ Kelly Graham, RN, BSN, is a patient safety analyst and consultant with ECRI Institute. Email:?kgraham@ Mark Meyers, RN, BSN, MBA, NE-BC is senior associate with the applied solutions group of the ECRI Institute. Email:?mmeyers@ Kathryn M Pelczarski, BS is director of the applied solutions group at the ECRI Institute. Email:?kpelczarski@ Published Online: 2011-03-01 Take a look around your hospital for medical devices and systems with alarms. Youll find them on infusion pumps, physiologic monitors, ventilators, anesthesia machines, dialysis units, laparoscopic insufflators, and so on. Its amazing how much the healthcare system has grown to rely on medical device alarms. It would be hard to walk into almost any type of patient room or care area and not find an alarm-based device being used. In critical care areas, its typical to find a dozen or more such devices, just for one patient. And these devices are now starting to become interconnected and are sharing lots of critical information, including alarm data. With such widespread use of alarm-based medical devices, youd think we would have a very effective safety net to warn about serious changes in patient conditions or performance-and safety-related problems with devices. Unfortunately, as many experts agree, there are serious problems with the design and use of device-based clinical alarms. Clinical alarms have been at or near the top of the ECRI Institutes list of “Top 10 Health Technology Hazards” since the annual list was first published in 2007. It remains near the top because alarm-related events are all too com