Alarm monitoring and evaluation
A device for monitoring a patient displays a nuisance button on a display device, receives clinician feedback from a selection of the nuisance button, and pauses an active alarm in response to the clinician feedback. The device identifies one or more alarm settings responsible for the clinician feedback and adjusts the one or more alarm settings based on the clinician feedback. The device records the clinician feedback in a device usage log for monitoring usage of the nuisance button. The device generates an alarm notification based on the active alarm, and classifies the alarm notification into a first group in which the alarm notification is a push notification or a second group in which the alarm notification is a pull notification.
1 . A device for monitoring a patient, comprising:
a display device;
at least one processing device; and
a memory device storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one processing device, cause the device to:
display a status area on the display device that includes an alarm pause input and a nuisance button separate from the alarm pause input, wherein the alarm pause input is selectable to pause an active alarm for a predetermined interval;
receive clinician feedback from a selection of the nuisance button or a selection of the alarm pause input;
pause the active alarm in response to the clinician feedback from the selection of the nuisance button or the selection of the alarm pause input;
identify one or more alarm settings responsible for the clinician feedback received via the selection of the nuisance button; and
adjust the one or more alarm settings based on the clinician feedback.
2 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the status area further displays a message regarding a status of the patient being monitored by the device.
3 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the one or more alarm settings are adjusted based on a learning rate that determines a speed for adjusting the one or more alarm settings.
4 . The device of claim 3 , wherein the speed of the learning rate is based on time duration or a threshold number of selections of the nuisance button.
5 . The device of claim 3 , wherein the speed of the learning rate is adjustable.
6 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the clinician feedback is recorded in a device usage log for monitoring usage of the nuisance button.
7 . The device of claim 6 , wherein the device usage log is a clickstream data schema that is generated each time the nuisance button is selected.
8 . The device of claim 6 , wherein the device usage log is aggregated with additional device usage logs to recommend optimal alarm settings based on key performance indicators.
9 . The device of claim 1 , wherein an alarm notification is generated based on the active alarm, and wherein the alarm notification is classified into a first group in which the alarm notification is a push notification, or a second group in which the alarm notification is a pull notification.
10 . The device of claim 9 , wherein the alarm notification is pushed to a mobile device, and wherein the alarm notification includes at least a first component identifying the patient and a second component identifying a most significant active alarm or patient condition.
11 . The device of claim 9 , wherein the alarm notification is configured to display a consolidated list of active alarms and patient conditions sorted by priority rank.