Alarms are meant to command your attention. They are annoying and loud by design. In a hospital, however, alarms without management can be dangerous to patients and employees. It also reduces patient and employee satisfaction.The common strategies used by hospitals to manage alarms focus primarily or exclusively on reduction. This makes sense for several reasons:- The majority of bedside alarms are not indicative of patient deterioration;- Alarm fatigue in clinical staff is a documented patient
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