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Fatique alarms in intensive care: describing the phenomenon through integrative literature review
Fadiga de alarmes em terapia intensiva: descrevendo o fenômeno através da revisão integrativa da literatura
Fatiga de alarmas en cuidados intensivos: describir el fenómeno mediante la revisión integradora de la literatura
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Abstract Objective: To analyze scientific publications about alarm monitoring and alarm fatigue phenomenon in intensive care. Methods: Integrative review of literature held in databases Lilacs, PubMed and SciELO. Results: After analyzing the productions elucidate the concepts and definitions of the phenomeno... view more
Objective: To analyze scientific publications about alarm monitoring and alarm fatigue phenomenon in intensive care. Methods: Integrative review of literature held in databases Lilacs, PubMed and SciELO. Results: After analyzing the productions elucidate the concepts and definitions of the phenomenon, predisposing factors and strategies to minimize them, the relationship with patient safety, achieving time frame 1993 to June 2010. Fatigue alarm occurs when a large number of alarms covers those clinically significant, enabling relevant alarms are disabled, silenced or ignored by staff. The excessive number of alarms makes indifferent staff, reducing your alertness, leading to distrust of the sense of urgency of alarms, resulting in lack of response to alarms relevant. Conclusion: The technological apparatus requires attention of professionals to ensure patient safety serious.... view less
Keywords
intensive care medicine; monitoring; security; patient; hospital; attention; health professionals
Classification
Medical Sociology
Free Keywords
Iatrogenie
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
Page/Pages
p. 27-41
Journal
Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental Online, 5 (2013) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.9789/2175-5361.2013v5n3p27
ISSN
2175-5361
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed