While both alarm management and alarm surveillance prioritize patient safety, they differ. Understanding these distinctions is key to reducing fatigue and improving clinical outcomes.
How was the aviation industry able to achieve such an incredible safety record, while the healthcare industry struggles to reduce an unacceptable number of preventable injuries and deaths?
For many nurses, increased medical technology is just another barrier to human-centered, outcomes-based care. There is a better way—and it’s up to nurses to forge that path.
Customization of alarm signal settings to individual patient needs is a step in the right direction for identifying patients who are trending towards adverse events.