Best Practices in Alarm Management
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Instructor Profile:
Dev Raheja, MS,CSP, author of the forthcoming book Preventing Medical Device Recalls, is an international risk management, patient safety and quality assurance consultant for medical device, healthcare and aerospace industry for over 25 years. Prior to becoming a consultant in 1982 he worked at GE Healthcare as Supervisor of Quality Assurance/Manager of Manufacturing Engineering, at Cooper Industries as Chief Engineer, and at Booz-Allen & Hamilton as Risk Management consultant for variety of industries. His clients include Johnson & Johnson, Siemens Medical Systems, Medtronic, Carl Zeiss, Warner-Lambert, Zimmer Holdings, and DuPont. He has served as Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland for five years for its PhD program in Reliability Engineering. He is a Fellow of American Society for Quality and recipient of its Austin Bonis Award for Reliability Education Advancement and is Senior Member of IEEE. Currently he is an Adjunct Professor at the Florida Tech for its BBA degree in Healthcare Management, has authored two more books Assurance Technologies Principles and Practices, and Safer Hospital Caret.
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Description: Hospitals rank alarm fatigue as top patient safety concern. There are even hospitals that logged more than 2.5 million patient monitoring alarms in just one month. When exposed to too many alarms, alarm fatigue develops. This situation can result in sensory overload, which may cause the person to become desensitized to the alarms. Consequently, the response to alarms may be delayed, or alarms may be missed altogether. Studies show it is difficult for humans to differentiate among more than 6 different alarm sounds, the average number of alarms in an ICU has increased from 6 in 1983 to more than 40 different alarms in 2011. In addition, 80% to 99% of electrocardiographic (ECG) monitor alarms are false or clinically insignificant. Deaths have been attributed to alarm fatigue
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Why Should you Attend: This webinar covers the real examples of experiences with alarm fatigue and successes in drastically reducing the number of alarms. It suggests several solutions. In addition, it suggests systems approach which had been rarely used but it should be used everywhere. The presenter has over 25 years experience in using the systems approach.
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Objectives of the Presentation: The major objectives of the presentation are to cover a lot of topics including,
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The Joint Commission Requirements
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Unintended Consequences of Silencing Alarms
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AACN Best Practices
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AAMI Approaches
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Johns Hopkins Alarm Experience and Recommendations
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California Hospital Patient Safety Organization Issues Identification
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Successes at Boston Medical Center
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Success at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
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Systems Approach to Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness
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Who can Benefit: All connected with patient care in hospitals such as nurses, doctors, supervisors, and support staff will benefit highly. Senior management needs to understand the risks and solutions.
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