ReviewJournal of electrocardiology
A call to alarms: Current state and future directions in the battle against alarm fatigue.
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46 citing papers in PubMed, 103 citations in OpenAlex.
- Decreasing inconsistent alarms notifications: a pragmatic clinical trial in a post-anesthesia care unit.Brazilian journal of anesthesiology (Elsevier)Trial
- Patient characteristics and monitor alarms in a cardiac ICU: A retrospective cross-sectional study.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2026Article
- The Emotional Burden and Behavioral Impacts of Alarms and Alerts Across the Spectrum of Diabetes Technology Use: a Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR diabetes · 2026Article
- A Narrative Review on In-Hospital Alarm Fatigue and Telemetry Monitoring Failure: Epidemiology and a Safer Telemetry Framework Model Proposal.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Impact of postoperative in-hospital continuous vital sign monitoring on healthcare costs, resource utilization and labor market outcomes.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2026Article
- A comprehensive cross-sectional study of bedside monitor alarm characteristics and alarm load across hospital units.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Vital signs as biomarkers of early clinical deterioration in pediatric emergency departments: physiology, interpretation, and innovations: a narrative review.International journal of emergency medicine · 2026Review
- Effects of diaphragmatic breathing training on alarm fatigue and patient safety culture among ICU nurses: a quasi-experimental study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Performance and safety of a novel, cable-free, patch-based, and AI-enhanced ECG monitoring system: a comparative study.European heart journal. Digital health · 2025Article
- Wearable biosensors for pediatric hospitals: a scoping review.Pediatric research · 2025Article
- Alarm fatigue in healthcare: a scoping review of definitions, influencing factors, and mitigation strategies.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Responding to clinical alarms in unfolding simulated clinical scenarios: auditory icons perform better than tonal alarms.British journal of anaesthesia · 2025Article
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- Employing Eye Trackers to Reduce Nuisance Alarms.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Exploring ICU nurses' response to alarm management and strategies for alleviating alarm fatigue: a meta-synthesis and systematic review.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Leveraging machine learning to enhance appointment adherence at a novel post-discharge care transition clinic.JAMIA open · 2024Article
- Alarm Management in Provisional COVID-19 Intensive Care Units: Retrospective Analysis and Recommendations for Future Pandemics.JMIR medical informatics · 2024Article
- Decision discovery using clinical decision support system decision log data for supporting the nurse decision-making process.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2024Article
- Performance comparison of 6 in-hospital patient monitoring systems in the detection and alarm of ventricular cardiac arrhythmias.Cardiovascular digital health journal · 2024Article
- Automatic triage of twelve-lead electrocardiograms using deep convolutional neural networks: a first implementation study.European heart journal. Digital health · 2024Article
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Authors and funding
7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
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.
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