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Table 6.

False and true alarm suppression results with resultant average FA alarm rates.

	TRAINING SET (n=267)		TEST SET (n=180)		COMBINED TRAINING AND TEST SETS (n=447)
Alarm Type	Suppression Rates				Suppression Rates		FA Rates
	FA	TA	FA	TA	FA	TA	Before suppression	After suppression
Asystole	92.5%	0.0%	95.0%	0.0%	93.5%	0.0%	90.7%	5.5%
Brady	79.7%	0.0%	83.6%	0.0%	81.0%	0.0%	29.3%	5.5%
Tachy	59.4%	0.0%	70.1%	0.0%	63.7%	0.0%	23.1%	8.4%
VTach	28.3%	14.5%	38.7%	4.0%	33.0%	9.4%	46.6%	30.8%
VT/VF	57.7%	0.0%	58.9%	0.0%	58.2%	0.0%	79.6%	33.1%
ALL	57.0%	4.7%	63.2%	1.4%	59.7%	2.4%	42.7%	17.2%