Perceptions of Infusion Pump Alarms: Insights Gained From Critical Care Nurses

Between 1983 and 2011, equipment-related alarms in critical care have increased from 6 to 40 different alarm types. As nurses become overwhelmed, distracted, or desensitized by alarm noise, they may miss critical alarms that could result in patient harm. The findings of an infusion pump alarm survey...

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Autores principales: Vitoux, Rachel R., Schuster, Catherine, Glover, Kevin R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. 2018
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Features
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6125754/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30188453
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/NAN.0000000000000295
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description Between 1983 and 2011, equipment-related alarms in critical care have increased from 6 to 40 different alarm types. As nurses become overwhelmed, distracted, or desensitized by alarm noise, they may miss critical alarms that could result in patient harm. The findings of an infusion pump alarm survey indicated that nurses overwhelmingly agree that infusion pump nuisance alarms occur frequently and disrupt patient care. But nurses' perceptions of pump alarms are different from those previously reported for clinical alarms in general. It may not be appropriate to broadly apply general alarm management recommendations to infusion pump alarms at this time.
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spelling pubmed-61257542018-09-13 Perceptions of Infusion Pump Alarms: Insights Gained From Critical Care Nurses Vitoux, Rachel R. Schuster, Catherine Glover, Kevin R. J Infus Nurs Features Between 1983 and 2011, equipment-related alarms in critical care have increased from 6 to 40 different alarm types. As nurses become overwhelmed, distracted, or desensitized by alarm noise, they may miss critical alarms that could result in patient harm. The findings of an infusion pump alarm survey indicated that nurses overwhelmingly agree that infusion pump nuisance alarms occur frequently and disrupt patient care. But nurses' perceptions of pump alarms are different from those previously reported for clinical alarms in general. It may not be appropriate to broadly apply general alarm management recommendations to infusion pump alarms at this time. Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. 2018-09 2018-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6125754/ /pubmed/30188453 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/NAN.0000000000000295 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the Infusion Nurses Society. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.
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