Table 2. Unit-based summary showing heart rate alarm metrics and parameter settings.
| Heart Rate (HR) Alarms | 10 ICC (Cardiac)16 beds | 9 ICU (Med/Surg)16 beds |
13 ICU (Med/Surg)16 beds |
8 NICU (Neuro) 13 beds |
11 NICU (Neuro) 16 beds |
Total | Mean |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Alarms | 5898 (25.0%) |
4084 (17.3%) |
5438 (23.0%) |
2163 (9.1%) |
6041 (25.6%) |
23624 | 4724.8 |
| Beds in unit | 16 | 16 | 16 | 13 | 16 | 77 | |
| # patients producing alarms over 30 days | 65 | 75 | 78 | 60 | 59 | 337 of 461 (73.1%) | |
| Alarms/bed/day (mean) | 12.3 | 8.5 | 11.3 | 5.5 | 12.6 | 10.0 | |
| Alarms/day/unit (mean) | 196.6 | 136.1 | 181.3 | 72.1 | 201.4 | 157.5 | |
| Alarms/unit/hour (mean) | 8.2 | 5.7 | 7.6 | 3.0 | 8.4 | 6.6 | |
| Alarm Duration (sec) [Range] | 22.1 [2–206] | 22.0 {1–2240} | 21.6 {1–3658} | 21.3 {1–2968} | 21.2 {1–2841} | 21.6 | |
| Lower Limit Alarms (% total per unit) | 2944 (49.9%) | 1004 (24.6%) | 1357 (25.0%) | 931 (27.0%) | 1934 (32.0%) | 7823 | 1564.6 |
| Lower Limit Alarm (mode) [range] |
50 [40–80] |
45 [40–70] |
50 [36–75] |
50 [39–60] |
50 [5–155] |
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| Upper Limit Alarms (% total) | 2954 (50.1%) | 3080 (75.4%) | 4081 (75.0%) | 1579 (73.0%) | 4107 (78.0%) | 15454 | 3090.8 |
| Upper Limit Alarms (mode) [range] |
130 [90–150] |
130 [95–190] |
140 [110–180] |
130 [75–170] |
130 [5–190] |