Understanding heart rate alarm adjustment in the intensive care units through an analytical approach

RL Fidler, MM Pelter, BJ Drew, JA Palacios, Y Bai… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Heart rate (HR) alarms are prevalent in ICU, and these parameters are
configurable. Not much is known about nursing behavior associated with tailoring HR alarm …

[HTML][HTML] Accuracy comparisons between manual and automated respiratory rate for detecting clinical deterioration in ward patients

MM Churpek, A Snyder, NM Twu… - Journal of hospital …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
METHODS In this prospective cohort study, adult patients admitted to one oncology ward at
the University of Chicago from April 2015 to May 2016 were approached for consent …

[HTML][HTML] Heart rate fluctuation predicts mortality in critically ill patients in the intensive care unit: a retrospective cohort study

Q Guo, Z Xiao, M Lin, G Yuan, Q Qiu… - Annals of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background To evaluate the association between heart rate (HR) fluctuation and mortality in
critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). Methods A total of 27,814 patients were …

Measurement of physiological monitor alarm accuracy and clinical relevance in intensive care units

H Ruppel, M Funk, R Whittemore - American Journal of Critical Care, 2018 - AACN
Background Alarm fatigue threatens patient safety by delaying or reducing clinician
response to alarms, which can lead to missed critical events. Interventions to reduce alarms …

An analysis of the errors in recorded heart rate and blood pressure in the ICU using a complex set of signal quality metrics

CW Hug, GD Clifford - 2007 Computers in Cardiology, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We analyzed over 95,000 individual values of heart rate and blood pressure derived from
118,000 hours of electrocardiogram (ECG) and 71,000 hours of Arterial Blood Pressure …

Staff perspectives on the influence of patient characteristics on alarm management in the intensive care unit: a cross-sectional survey study

F Balzer, L Agha-Mir-Salim, N Ziemert… - BMC Health Services …, 2023 - Springer
Background High rates of clinical alarms in the intensive care unit can result in alarm fatigue
among staff. Individualization of alarm thresholds is regarded as one measure to reduce non …

Heart rate variability in critical care medicine: a systematic review

SN Karmali, A Sciusco, SM May, GL Ackland - Intensive care medicine …, 2017 - Springer
Background Heart rate variability (HRV) has been used to assess cardiac autonomic activity
in critically ill patients, driven by translational and biomarker research agendas. Several …

Early heart rate variability evaluation enables to predict ICU patients' outcome

L Bodenes, QT N'Guyen, R Le Mao, N Ferrière… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Heart rate variability (HRV) is a mean to evaluate cardiac effects of autonomic nervous
system activity, and a relation between HRV and outcome has been proposed in various …

Testing physiologic monitor alarm customization software to reduce alarm rates and improve nurses' experience of alarms in a medical intensive care unit

H Ruppel, L De Vaux, D Cooper, S Kunz, B Duller… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Clinicians in intensive care units experience alarm fatigue related to frequent
false and non-actionable alarms produced by physiologic monitors. To reduce non …

Challenges of heart rate variability research in the ICU

PK Stein - Critical care medicine, 2013 - journals.lww.com
The amount of long-term, multichannel ICU patient data that could potentially be archived
and analyzed continues to mushroom with the growth of high-volume data acquisition and …