Page 39 - GlobalCE 1st Special Issue

Lin, Zheng, Shen, Zheng, and Wu: Survey and Analysis of Current State of Ventilator Alarms in the Intensive Care Unit

FigURE 1. Alarm name and number of alarms.

TABlE 2. The Result of the Intervention
Clinician’s medical Clinical engineering and Alarm elimination by
intervention nurse’s equipment correction silencing

Number of alarms 11 343 132
Proportion 2.26% 70.58% 27.16%

TABlE 3. Overview of Alarm Data
Time Total Meaningful alarm Meaningless alarm Rate of meaningful alarm
st
1 day 50 43 7 86.00%
2 day 46 31 15 67.39%
nd
rd
3 day 36 28 8 77.78%
th
4 day 45 39 6 86.36%
5 day 59 46 13 77.97%
th
th
6 day 69 44 25 63.77%
th
7 day 48 31 17 64.58%
th
8 day 48 34 14 70.83%
th
9 day 45 29 16 64.44%
th
10 day 40 29 11 72.50%
Total 486 354 132 ——
Average 46.8 35.4 13.2 73.16%

39 J Global Clinical Engineering Special Issue 1: 37-41; 2018