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Team-based intervention to reduce the impact of nonactionable alarms in an adult intensive care unit.

Yeh J, Wilson R, Young L, et al. Team-Based Intervention to Reduce the Impact of Nonactionable Alarms in an Adult Intensive Care Unit. J Nurs Care Qual. 2019;35(2):115-122. doi:10.1097/ncq.0000000000000436.

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November 6, 2019
Yeh J, Wilson R, Young L, et al. J Nurs Care Qual. 2019;35(2):115-122.
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Prior research has found that nonactionable alarms are common and contribute to alarm fatigue among providers in intensive care units. This single center study employed an interprofessional team-based approach to adjust the default thresholds for arrhythmias and specific parameters such as oxygen saturation, which resulted in a nearly 47% reduction in nonactionable alarms over a two-week period.

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Yeh J, Wilson R, Young L, et al. Team-Based Intervention to Reduce the Impact of Nonactionable Alarms in an Adult Intensive Care Unit. J Nurs Care Qual. 2019;35(2):115-122. doi:10.1097/ncq.0000000000000436.

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