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Intensive care unit nurses' perceptions and practices regarding clinical alarms: A descriptive study.
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- Balancing sensitivity and specificity: investigating the effect of age delay and critical illness events on the number of threshold alarms.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2026Article
- Noise in the Intensive Care Unit: A Narrative Review of Its Characteristics, Clinical Impact, and Reduction Strategies.Critical care research and practice · 2026Review
- Alarm Management Competence in Clinical Nursing Practice: An Evolutionary Concept Analysis.Journal of nursing management · 2026Review
- Barriers to managing clinical alarms in intensive care units: a cross-sectional study.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2026Article
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- Call for Decision Support for Electrocardiographic Alarm Administration Among Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Staff: Multicenter, Cross-Sectional Survey.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Coping strategies of intensive care units nurses in alarm management: a qualitative research study.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Levels and Factors of Nurses' Alarm Fatigue in Critical Care Settings in Saudi Arabia: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Article
- Intensive care unit nurses' perceptions and practices regarding clinical alarms: A descriptive study.Nursing open · 2023Observational
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Abstract
aimTo describe the frequencies of physiologic monitor clinical alarms and to investigate nurses' perceptions and practices regarding clinical alarms in ICUs.
designA descriptive study.
methodsA 24-h continuous nonparticipant observation study was conducted in ICU. Observers observed and recorded the occurrence time, detail information when electrocardiogram monitor alarms triggered. And a cross-sectional study was conducted among ICU nurses by convenience sampling, using the general information questionnaire and the Chinese version of clinical alarms survey questionnaire for medical devices. Data analysis was performed using SPSS 23.
resultsA total of 13,829 physiologic monitor clinical alarms were recorded in 14-day observation and 1191 ICU nurses responded to the survey. Most nurses agreed or strongly agreed the sensitivity to alarms and responded quickly (81.28%), smart alarm systems (74.56%), alarm notification systems (72.04%) and set up alarm administrators (59.45%) were useful to improve alarm management, while frequent nuisance alarms disrupted patients care (62.47%) and reduced nurses' trust in alarms (49.03%), environmental noise interfered with nurses' recognition of the alarms (49.12%) and not everyone received education of alarm systems (64.65%).
conclusionsPhysiological monitor alarms occur frequently in ICU, and it is necessary to formulate or further optimize alarm management measures. It is recommended to use smart medical devices and alarm notification systems, formulate and implement standardized alarm management policies and norms, and strengthen alarm management education and training, so as to improve the nursing quality and patient safety. PATIENT OR PUBLIC CONTRIBUTION: The patients in the observation study included all patients admitted to the ICU during the observation period. The nurses in the survey study were conveniently selected through an online survey.
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