Best Practices in Alarm Management

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Best Practices in Alarm Management
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• Instructor Profile
• Dev Raheja, MS,CSP, author
  of the forthcoming book Preventing Medical Device
  Recalls, is an international risk management,
  patient safety and quality assurance consultant
  for medical device, healthcare and aerospace
  industry for over 25 years. Prior to becoming a
  consultant in 1982 he worked at GE Healthcare as
  Supervisor of Quality Assurance/Manager of
  Manufacturing Engineering, at Cooper Industries
  as Chief Engineer, and at Booz-Allen Hamilton
  as Risk Management consultant for variety of
  industries. His clients include Johnson
  Johnson, Siemens Medical Systems, Medtronic, Carl
  Zeiss, Warner-Lambert, Zimmer Holdings, and
  DuPont.He has served as Adjunct Professor at
  the University of Maryland for five years for its
  PhD program in Reliability Engineering. He is a
  Fellow of American Society for Quality and
  recipient of its Austin Bonis Award for
  Reliability Education Advancement and is Senior
  Member of IEEE. Currently he is an Adjunct
  Professor at the Florida Tech for its BBA degree
  in Healthcare Management, has authored two more
  books Assurance Technologies Principles and
  Practices, and Safer Hospital Caret. 

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• Description
• Hospitals rank alarm fatigue as
  top patient safety concern. There are even
  hospitals that logged more than 2.5 million
  patient monitoring alarms in just one month. When
  exposed to too many alarms, alarm fatigue
  develops. This situation can result in sensory
  overload, which may cause the person to become
  desensitized to the alarms. Consequently, the
  response to alarms may be delayed, or alarms may
  be missed altogether.
• Studies show it is difficult for
  humans to differentiate among more than 6
  different alarm sounds, the average number of
  alarms in an ICU has increased from 6 in 1983 to
  more than 40 different alarms in 2011. In
  addition, 80 to 99 of electrocardiographic
  (ECG) monitor alarms are false or clinically
  insignificant. Deaths have been attributed to
  alarm fatigue

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• Why Should you Attend
• This webinar covers the real
  examples of experiences with alarm fatigue and
  successes in drastically reducing the number of
  alarms. It suggests several solutions. In
  addition, it suggests systems approach which had
  been rarely used but it should be used
  everywhere. The presenter has over 25 years
  experience in using the systems approach.

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• Objectives of the Presentation
• The major objectives of the
  presentation are to cover a lot of topics
  including,
• The Joint Commission Requirements
• Unintended Consequences of Silencing Alarms
• AACN Best Practices
• AAMI Approaches
• Johns Hopkins Alarm Experience and
  Recommendations
• California Hospital Patient Safety Organization
  Issues Identification
• Successes at Boston Medical Center
• Success at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical
  Center
• Systems Approach to Improving Efficiency and
  Effectiveness

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• Who can Benefit
• All connected with patient care in
  hospitals such as nurses, doctors, supervisors,
  and support staff will benefit highly. Senior
  management needs to understand the risks and
  solutions.

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• Live Session - How it works
• Username and Password will be sent to you 24
  hours prior to the webinar
• Presentation handouts in pdf formate will be
  mailed to you
• Login to the session using the username and
  password provided to you
• Get answer to your queries through interactive
  QA sessions via chat
• Please let us know your thoughts and views at the
  end of webinar, your valuable feedback will help
  us improve
• Get certification of attendance.

• Recorded Session - How it works
• A link will be provided to you upon purchase of
  the recorded session
• Please click on the link to access the session
• Presentation handouts in pdf formate will be
  mailed to you
• Get certification of attendance.

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