Audit of the bedside monitor alarms in a critical care unit;Auditoría de las alarmas del monitor de cabecera en una unidad de cuidados críticos

Enfermeria Intensiva

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 83-90

  Morales Sanchez C ^a   Murillo Perez M A ^a   Torrente Vela, S ^a   Garcia Iglesias M ^a   Cornejo Bauer, C ^a   Lopez Lopez C ^a   Orejana Martin M ^a   Cuenca Solanas, M ^a   Alted Lopez E ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alarm; Alarma; Critical care; Cuidados cr ticos; Enfermer a; Nursing; Parameters monitored; Par metros monitorizados

Indexed keywords

ALARM MONITOR; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; POINT OF CARE SYSTEM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION;

CLINICAL ALARMS; CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 84923012425     PISSN: 11302399     EISSN: 15781291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enfi.2013.11.008     Document Type: Article

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