Patient monitoring
Alarm management
A comprehensive approach to solving your alarm management challenges
Excessive alarms can contribute to medical errors, staff burnout and lost productivity – as well as a disruptive experience for patients. As multiple alarms compete to capture attention, nurses may miss the alarms that are actually urgent, putting their patient at risk. Quality care, patient and staff satisfaction all depend on making improvements to ensure that alarms are heard and responded to – without overwhelming patients and clinicians.
Managing alarms
Solutions in alarm management
Solving your complex alarm challenges
Demonstrated results in alarm management1
Soothing soundscapes require strategic alarm management
With a global footprint and presence in thousands of hospitals worldwide, Philips has developed expertise and a comprehensive suite of clinically meaningful solutions in alarm management. We can help you create quieter healing environments using innovative patient monitoring technologies, and data-driven clinical consulting services designed to holistically improve your alarm management process.
Creating a quiet healing environment
- Custom alarm parameters help reduce alarms
- Find the causes of non-actionable monitoring alarms
- Minimize disruption in care areas by acknowledging alarms outside of patient rooms
- Transform the sound of care by selecting tranquil alerts
- Work with experts to create a comprehensive alarm management strategy
Get support at any stage to meet your objectives
- Multiple capabilities to make alarms more appropriate and more actionable across your hospital
- Clinical consultants who leverage vast industry insight to help you create and implement a comprehensive alarm management strategy
Featured solutions for your alarm management challenges
Philips Central Monitoring Unit
Only Philips has the single-platform solution to unleash the potential of centralized telemetry monitoring
• Wavestrip Export
• ADT and EMR integration
• Alarm management, including mobile command/control
• Enhanced safety checks
• Workstation load balancing for census and acuity
• Centralized network management
Alarm Advisor
Alarm customization software is associated with a reduction in alarms.1 This feature keeps track of how clinicians are responding to patient alarms and help them adapt alarm limits specifically to them.
- Get feedback on alarm response behavior
- Designed to reduce repeated acknowledging of unnecessary alerts
- Tailor thresholds for individual patients
Event Notification with Care Assist2
Philips Event Notification system, combined with the Care Assist app, allows clinicians to see live patient data and use "act anywhere" capabilities within the hospital network–including acknowledging alarms and taking vitals (Philips devices only)–from their mobile device.
- Gain visibility into patients’ status remotely
- Review alarm data remotely
- Get alarm notifications on mobile devices and escalate critical alarms
- Consistent user experience between central station, bedside monitors and mobile
Enabling technologies
Philips IntelliVue monitors are reimagining alarm sounds, creating a more pleasant experience for patients, their families, and hospital staff.
Footnotes
- Ruppel, H., De Vaux, L., Cooper, D., et al. Testing physiologic monitor alarm customization software to reduce alarm rates and improve nurses’ experience of alarms in a medical intensive care unit. PloS one. 2018;13(10): e0205901.
- *Bi-directional control to initiate measurements and take action for Philips devices only *When configured to work with Philips PIC iX 4 Event Notification and Philips monitors, Care Assist becomes part of an alarming system that meets current IEC 60601-1-8 alarm safety standards
Disclaimer
*Product features may not be available in all geographies. Please check with your Philips representative for complete portfolio availability