BACKGROUND As many as 99% of alarm signals may not need any intervention and can result in patients' deaths. Alarm management is now a Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal. OBJECTIVES To reduce the number of nuisance electrocardiographic alarm signals in adult patients on the medical cardiovascular care unit. METHODS A quality improvement process was used that included eliminating ...

212 words OK) Objective: To explore how a single master alarm system affects drivers’ responses when compared to multiple, distinct warnings. Background: Advanced driver warning systems are intended to improve safety, yet inappropriate integration may increase the complexity of driving, especially in high workload situations. This study investigated the effects of auditory alarm scheme, reliabi...

Heterospecific eavesdropping on alarm calls is well documented, but less is known about the factors influencing asymmetry in the reliability of heterospecific alarm calls. Partial overlap of predators between heterospecifics has been hypothesized as 1 possible mechanism driving asymmetric eavesdropping. We tested the responses of common mynas (Acridotheres tristis) and red-vented bulbuls (Pycno...

Translocation programmes implying the movement of animals from one place to another aim sustain endangered populations in wild. However, their success varies greatly, with predation being a major contributing factor. This is particularly prevalent released captive-raised individuals which have reduced or lost awareness predators. Alarm calls are an immediate response made toward predator, mostl...

Spatial alarms are fundamental capability for location based advertisements and location based reminders. One of the most challenging problems in scaling spatial alarm processing is to compute alarm free regions (AFR) such that mobile objects traveling within an AFR can safely hibernate the alarm evaluation process until approaching the nearest alarm of interest. In this paper we argue that mai...

False physiologic monitor alarms are extremely common in the hospital environment. High false alarm rates have the potential to lead to alarm fatigue, leading nurses to delay their responses to alarms, ignore alarms, or disable them entirely. Recent evidence from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and The Joint Commission has demonstrated a link between alarm fatigue and patient deaths...

BACKGROUND Reporting of symptoms which may signal cancer is the first step in the diagnostic pathway of cancer diseases. Cancer alarm symptoms are common in the general population. Public awareness and knowledge of cancer symptoms are sparse, however, and many people do not seek medical help when having possible cancer symptoms. As social inequality is associated with cancer knowledge, cancer a...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of smoke alarm use among families with children and to identify household factors that predict the absence of a smoke alarm. DESIGN Cross sectional analysis of data collected in the September and November 1995 Omnibus Survey, conducted by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys in the UK. SUBJECTS A random sample of British households. Interviews ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Danish Cancer Patient Pathway for sarcoma defines a set of alarm symptoms as criteria for referral to a sarcoma center. This may exclude cancer patients without alarm symptoms, so we investigated the presence of alarm symptoms (defined as being indicative of a sarcoma) in patients who had been referred to the Aarhus Sarcoma Center. PATIENTS AND METHODS We reviewed t...