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. 2019 Nov 22;7:2700310. doi: 10.1109/JTEHM.2019.2953520

TABLE 2. The Number of Yellow and Red Alarms Generated per Infant, Including the Number of Valid Alarms for a Pre- and Post-Alarm Window of 3 Minutes, as Well as the Total Number of Valid Alarms Acquired From all Infants for Different Lengths of Pre- and Post-Alarm Windows.

No. of alarms Median 25th percentile 75th percentile
per infant
Yellow 1784.0 452.5 6437.5
Red 461.0 210.5 1615.0
YtR 288.0 98.0 1643.0
YtnR 1414.0 352.0 4969.0
YtR (valid*) 177.0 80.0 1095.0
YtnR (valid*) 878.5 282.25 2716.0
Total number of valid alarms for different lengths of pre- and post-alarm windows
Pre-alarm window (min) Post-alarm window (min) No. ofYtRalarms (valid*) No. ofYtnRalarms (valid*)
3 3 47,255 149,007
3 2 40,869 155,387
3 1 31,901 164,352
2 1 31,993 163,637
1 1 32,034 163,065
*

Approximately, 70% of the original 278,000 yellow alarms satisfied the data sufficiency criteria in the pre-alarm window and were eligible for inclusion in the analysis. See Methods, section C for a description of the data sufficiency criterion.