Nurses working in busy ICUs or big clinical wards are k**wn to suffer from “alarm fatigue” caused by monitoring devices regularly detecting disconnects, Vitals out of range, etc etc. This can be pretty frustrating on the staff and can lead to patients with a more acute status being forgotten in favor of someone else’s mi**r issue. A new patent recently issued to Nihon Kohden America covers a **vel Algorithm that aims to Reduce false alarms and increase patient safety while helping nurses do their job.
The Algorithm uses sliding median filters to process the Data coming from clinical monitoring systems. This supposedly allows the Algorithm to “smooth” out the Data and Reduce false positives while **t increasing the number of false negatives.
03-11-2014, 08:28 PM
New Algorithm Smooths Live Vitals Data Stream to Reduce Alarm Fatigue
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