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Alarm Reductions Don’t Improve ICU Response Times

the-hospitalist.org December 14, 2017

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It will take more than a reduction in alarms to address the issue of alarm fatigue in the ICU; a change in the ICU staff culture is needed, suggests new research. A program run at Dr. Kunadu’s hospital showed that cutting back in alarm number alone did not lead to better response times to alarms. Counter-intuitively, response times worsened as the total number of alarms fell.

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