TY - JOUR
T1 - Ventilator Alarms in Intensive Care Units
T2 - Frequency, Duration, Priority, and Relationship to Ventilator Parameters
AU - Cvach, Maria M.
AU - Stokes, Jacqueline E.
AU - Manzoor, Sajid H.
AU - Brooks, Patrick O.
AU - Burger, Timothy S.
AU - Gottschalk, Allan
AU - Pustavoitau, Aliaksei
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: Supported, in part, by a grant from the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Ventilator alarms have long been presumed to contribute substantially to the overall alarm burden in the intensive care unit. In a prospective observational study, we determined that each ventilator triggered an alarm cascade of up to 8 separate notifications once every 6 minutes. In 1 intensive care unit with different ventilator manufacturers, the distribution of high-priority alarms was manufacturer dependent with 8.6% of alarms from 1 type and 89.8% of alarms from another type of ventilator. Alarm limits were not a function of patient-specific ventilator settings.
AB - Ventilator alarms have long been presumed to contribute substantially to the overall alarm burden in the intensive care unit. In a prospective observational study, we determined that each ventilator triggered an alarm cascade of up to 8 separate notifications once every 6 minutes. In 1 intensive care unit with different ventilator manufacturers, the distribution of high-priority alarms was manufacturer dependent with 8.6% of alarms from 1 type and 89.8% of alarms from another type of ventilator. Alarm limits were not a function of patient-specific ventilator settings.
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U2 - 10.1213/ANE.0000000000003801
DO - 10.1213/ANE.0000000000003801
M3 - Article
C2 - 30234538
AN - SCOPUS:85092684022
SN - 0003-2999
VL - 130
SP - E9-E13
JO - Anesthesia and analgesia
JF - Anesthesia and analgesia
IS - 1
ER -