• Anesthesia and analgesia · Jan 2020

    Observational Study

    Ventilator Alarms in Intensive Care Units: Frequency, Duration, Priority, and Relationship to Ventilator Parameters.

    • Maria M Cvach, Jacqueline E Stokes, Sajid H Manzoor, Patrick O Brooks, Timothy S Burger, Allan Gottschalk, and Aliaksei Pustavoitau.
    • From the *Department of Integrated Healthcare Delivery, Johns Hopkins Health System, Baltimore, Maryland †Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.
    • Anesth. Analg. 2020 Jan 1; 130 (1): e9-e13.

    AbstractVentilator alarms have long been presumed to contribute substantially to the overall alarm burden in the intensive care unit. In a prospective observational study, we determined that each ventilator triggered an alarm cascade of up to 8 separate notifications once every 6 minutes. In 1 intensive care unit with different ventilator manufacturers, the distribution of high-priority alarms was manufacturer dependent with 8.6% of alarms from 1 type and 89.8% of alarms from another type of ventilator. Alarm limits were not a function of patient-specific ventilator settings.

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