A critical assessment of monitoring practices, patient deterioration, and alarm fatigue on inpatient wards: A review

Patient Safety in Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Curry, J P ^a   Jungquist, Carla R ^b  

^a HOAG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PRESBYTERIAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm threshold values; Arousal failure; Central sleep apnea; Continuous pulse oximetry; Dartmouth patient surveillance system; Functional residual capacity; General care floors; Obstructive sleep apnea; Oxygen supplementation; Oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve; Patterns of respiratory dysfunction; Rapidly evolving clinical cascades

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; BREATHING PATTERN; CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST; COGNITION; DETERIORATION; FATIGUE; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; NURSE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; ALARM FATIGUE; ALARM THRESHOLD VALUE; AMBIENT AIR; AROUSAL FAILURE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTERIAL PH; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DYSPNEA; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPERALGESIA; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; HYPOXEMIA; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; OBESITY HYPOVENTILATION SYNDROME; OXYGEN DISSOCIATION CURVE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREVALENCE; PULSE OXIMETRY; RAPIDLY EVOLVING CLINICAL CASCADE; REM SLEEP; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; TIDAL VOLUME;

2,3 DIPHOSPHOGLYCERIC ACID; CARBON DIOXIDE; NALOXONE; OPIATE; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

EID: 84902911710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17549493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1754-9493-8-29     Document Type: Review

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