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An ED Intensivist from NY.
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Nassau University Medical Center
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Professor
Nassau University Medical Center
No conflicts of interest (coi).
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Hi Scott,
I’d like to learn a little more about the alarm parameters you’d standardised/or eliminated in your department in an attempt to eliminate unnecessary extraneous noise and “alarm fatigue”. This is a significant problem where I work & wondered if you’d be happy to share or discuss how you’d gone about making your environment quieter and safer.
Best wishes
Dean
hey buddy. we had biomed printout all of the alarm settings for our monitors and then we ruthlessly eliminated any we didn’t feel actually signalled life threat. We deleted about 70% and extended the range on another 20% of the parameters.
maybe 1 day you can do a post about this. As a chief MD of a big ED in Chile, this is a higly uncommon topic to talk about in here. Im trying to make quality of life better in my ED (for my personnel and patients), as sometimes we have patients for 4-5 days waiting for a bed.
Not a big commenter but would like you to keep these lit reviews. Love them and they keep me up on some of the reading I’m not able to do. I find them helpful. Pleas keep doing them.
Thanks
on it!!!!
I think this is the podcast you were talking about the forum. I’m a new subscriber so I just recently started exploring it. I think it’s an awesome idea, I would hate to see it go but I can already see it does not have much activity. I think it’d be great if you did a Q&A based on some questions/dilemmas we have in our units, but the thing I love most about forums is the discussion and ability for us to participate as well. I’ve been trying to stir up some trouble, but I understand if it doesn’t work… Read more »