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Method and system to reduce the nuisance alarm load in the clinical setting

  • US 9,582,988 B2
  • Filed: 11/20/2013
  • Issued: 02/28/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A medical system comprising:

  • at least one processor programmed to;

    receive and/or generate physiological alarms for patients;

    establish an alarm rate limit for the patients, and alarm response time limits for clinician response times, based on a clinical alarm management policy;

    store the received and/or generated alarms for subsequent analysis wherein each stored alarm includes at least a response time and a clinician assigned to a patient corresponding to the alarm;

    analyze the stored physiological alarms to determine;

    patients exceeding the alarm rate limit; and

    ,clinicians exceeding the alarm response limits; and

    notify clinicians of (i) patients in their care that have alarm rates exceeding the alarm rate limit and (ii) patients in their care that have alarm response times exceeding the alarm response time limits.

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