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Nonactionable alarms in critical care settings contribute to clinician cognitive and sensory overload, which can lead to actionable alarm signals being inappropriately silenced or ignored.
Alarm fatigue due to nonactionable alarms in critical care settings contributes to clinician cognitive overload and potential patient harm.
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Nonactionable alarms were associated with clinician overload in critical care; leaves open targeted reduction strategies for prospective evaluation.
Alarm fatigue is described as desensitization of the clinician to alarms due to the number of false or nonactionable alarms. Nonactionable alarms can be defined as alarms that do not require an active clinical intervention. Due to the proliferation of medical devices and technology used to support the delivery of patient care, alarm fatigue is a frequent occurrence in critical care settings. An increase in the number of nonactionable alarms has contributed to clinician cognitive and sensory overload, which can lead to actionable alarm signals being silenced, ignored, or turned off inappropriately.
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Vaux et al. (2017) conducted a review in Alarm fatigue. Nonactionable alarms in critical care settings contribute to clinician cognitive and sensory overload, which can lead to actionable alarm signals being inappropriately silenced or ignored.
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