Sentinel Event Alert 50: Medical Device Alarm Safety in Hospitals

The Joint Commission. (2013). Sentinel Event Alert 50: Medical Device Alarm Safety in Hospitals: Medical Device Alarm Safety in Hospitals.

Type

Report

Intellectual base

Grey literature

Year

2013

Link

https://www.jointcommission.org/en-us/knowledge-library/newsletters/sentinel-event-alert/issue-50

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Mechanisms

• Attention Cap Management
  • Its trigger is the saturation signal of ignored or missed alerts, the sign the receiver has already gone numb.

    This sourceWarns that high volumes of mostly non-actionable alarms desensitize clinicians, causing ignored alarms and missed clinically significant events.

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