A study published in November 2015 inJournal of Clinical Nursing indicates that a newly designed vital sign monitoring system can improve patient safety in medical and surgical units without an abundance of unnecessary alarms. A release from the publishers notes that when the system was installed for four weeks in two medical/surgical units–one in Utah… Continue reading New Vital Sign Monitoring System for Hospitalized Patients
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The Wrong Kind of Monitoring in Hospitals?
Millions of physiological alarms in hospitals are triggered each month, and the technology needs to be improved to avoid further “alarm fatigue” among health care providers, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the University of California said their study of alarm fatigue was the first ever… Continue reading The Wrong Kind of Monitoring in Hospitals?