Evaluation of alarm systems for medical equipment.
The provision of automatic alarm systems on medical equipment is generally designed to supplement the user's ability to monitor a variety of device and patient variables simultaneously. The potential value of such systems in improving the safety and efficacy of medical care is accompanied by the potential for false reliance on or other misuse of the alarm systems. Therefore the alarm provisions become an important aspect of clinical engineering assessment of equipment with respect to selection, user training, hazard analysis, and the provision of effective and appropriate preventive maintenance programs.
D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000592:standards*; D004582:Electronics, Medical / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004868:Equipment Failure; D006801:Humans; D008284:Maintenance and Engineering, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation