ALARM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
First Claim
1. An alarm management system, comprising:
- an informatics server, comprising;
one or more processors;
a memory, coupled to the one or more processors, on which instructions are stored, comprising instructions that when executed cause one or more processors to;
receive an alarm from a bedside physiological monitoring device;
evaluate an alarm routing rule corresponding to the alarm, the rule associated with an alarm context; and
route the alarm to a recipient designated by the alarm routing rule.
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Abstract
The Alarm Management System allows hospitals and critical care units to manage alarms generated by patient monitors and includes the following components: The Alarm Dashboard provides a display of alarm history and trends categorized as desired by hospital administrators. The Alarm Criticality Discernment Tool assists in distinguishing between critical and non-critical alarms. This Tool can allow a clinician to accommodate patient-specific or doctor-specific rules, alarm thresholds, or exceptions. The Alarm Renderer Tool provides physiological data for a predetermined period before the alarm and upon receiving a patient alarm, allows the alarm and the physiological data displayed visually to be forwarded to a care provider to assist in the determination of the criticality of the alarm. The Alarm Router Tool is a set of rules and editor for routing and escalating unacknowledged alarms to other care providers and recording these events.
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1. An alarm management system, comprising:
an informatics server, comprising; one or more processors; a memory, coupled to the one or more processors, on which instructions are stored, comprising instructions that when executed cause one or more processors to; receive an alarm from a bedside physiological monitoring device; evaluate an alarm routing rule corresponding to the alarm, the rule associated with an alarm context; and route the alarm to a recipient designated by the alarm routing rule. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A non-transitory machine readable medium on which are stored instructions, comprising instructions that when executed cause one or more programmable devices to:
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receive an alarm from a bedside physiological monitoring device; evaluate an alarm routing rule corresponding to the alarm, the rule associated with an alarm context; and route the alarm to a recipient designated by the alarm routing rule. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of managing physiological alarms, comprising:
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receiving an alarm from a bedside physiological monitoring device; evaluating an alarm routing rule corresponding to the alarm, the rule associated with an alarm context; and routing the alarm to a recipient designated by the alarm routing rule, wherein the alarm routing rule comprises a computational algorithm. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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