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Review
. 2001 Aug;5(4):184-8.
doi: 10.1186/cc1021. Epub 2001 May 23.

Alarms in the intensive care unit: how can the number of false alarms be reduced?

M C Chambrin  1
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Review

Alarms in the intensive care unit: how can the number of false alarms be reduced?

M C Chambrin. Crit Care. 2001 Aug.

Abstract

Many alarms, as they now exist in most monitoring systems, are not usually perceived as helpful by the medical staff because of the high incidence of false alarms. This paper gives an overview of the problems related to their current design and the objectives of monitoring. The current approaches used to improve the situation are then presented from two main standpoints: organizational and behavioural on the one hand, and technical on the other.

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