Horizons provides articles on specific topics of broad interest to the medical technology community, such as information technology, home healthcare, and human factors engineering.
from their site:
TOPIC SPRING 2011: Alarm Systems
“Medical alarm systems warn of danger by alerting caregivers to critical medical information. They also frequently malfunction or are turned off, ignored, or unheard, earning a top spot on lists of the most frequent and serious problems seen with devices. How can the safety and effectiveness of alarms be improved?”
These are the planned topics:
2011 Alarm Systems Horizons – Editorial Content
The following articles are under development for the Spring 2011 issue of Alarm Systems Horizons:
- Why Clinical Alarms Are a ‘Top Ten’ Hazard: How You Can Help Reduce the Risk
- IEC 60601-1-8 Alarm Standard and Risk Management Considerations
- Alarm Systems in Critical Care: Highlights of the New International Standard for Critical Care Ventilators
- Understanding the Relationship between Cardiopulmonary Monitors and Clinically Significant Events in Critically Ill Children
- Physiologic Alarm Load on Med/Surg Floors of a Community Hospital
- Taking Alarm Standardization to the Floors: Demonstrating the Use of Telemetry In-Situ with a Training System
- The Patient Monitoring Conundrum: “Managing Alarms” Versus Managing Patients
- Pulse Oximetry Advanced Alarm Threshold
- An Evidence-Based Strategy to Reduce SPO2 Nuisance Alarms
- Visual and Auditory Perception Research: Implications for the Design, Selection, Use, and Maintenance of Alarms
- A Decentralized Hierarchical Network Model for Alarms
- Designing Effective Alarm Sounds
- Complementing Alarms with Useful Troubleshooting Guidance
- Clinical Alarm Hazards: Overview and Recommendations
- Using Modern Internet Techniques to Distribute Alarms
- Use of Mobile Devices to Improve Alarm Systems
- Functional Basics of Third-Party Alerting Alarming Systems
- Advancing the Functionality of Medical Alarms
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