This webinar covers the real examples of experiences with alarm fatigue and successes in drastically reducing the number of alarms.

1. Best
Practices in
Alarm
Manageme
nt
www.onlinecompliancepanel.com | 510-857-5896 | customersupport@onlinecompliancepanel.com

2. Instructor Profile:
Dev Raheja, MS,CSP, author of the forthcoming book Preventing Medical
Device Recalls, is an international risk management, patient safety and quality
assurance consultant for medical device, healthcare and aerospace industry for
over 25 years. Prior to becoming a consultant in 1982 he worked at GE Healthcare
as Supervisor of Quality Assurance/Manager of Manufacturing Engineering, at
Cooper Industries as Chief Engineer, and at Booz-Allen & Hamilton as Risk
Management consultant for variety of industries. His clients include Johnson &
Johnson, Siemens Medical Systems, Medtronic, Carl Zeiss, Warner-Lambert,
Zimmer Holdings, and DuPont.
He has served as Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland for five years for
its PhD program in Reliability Engineering. He is a Fellow of American Society for
Quality and recipient of its Austin Bonis Award for Reliability Education
Advancement and is Senior Member of IEEE. Currently he is an Adjunct Professor
at the Florida Tech for its BBA degree in Healthcare Management, has authored
two more books Assurance Technologies Principles and Practices, and Safer
Hospital Caret.
www.onlinecompliancepanel.com | 510-857-5896 | customersupport@onlinecompliancepanel.com

3. Description:
Hospitals rank alarm fatigue as top patient
safety concern. There are even hospitals that
logged more than 2.5 million patient monitoring
alarms in just one month. When exposed to too
many alarms, alarm fatigue develops. This
situation can result in sensory overload, which
may cause the person to become desensitized
to the alarms. Consequently, the response to
alarms may be delayed, or alarms may be
missed altogether.
Studies show it is difficult for humans to
differentiate among more than 6 different alarm
sounds, the average number of alarms in an ICU
has increased from 6 in 1983 to more than 40
different alarms in 2011. In addition, 80% to
99% of electrocardiographic (ECG) monitor
alarms are false or clinically insignificant. Deaths
have been attributed to alarm fatigue
www.onlinecompliancepanel.com | 510-857-5896 | customersupport@onlinecompliancepanel.com

4. Why Should you Attend:
This webinar covers the real examples of
experiences with alarm fatigue and successes in
drastically reducing the number of alarms. It
suggests several solutions. In addition, it
suggests systems approach which had been
rarely used but it should be used everywhere.
The presenter has over 25 years experience in
using the systems approach.
www.onlinecompliancepanel.com | 510-857-5896 | customersupport@onlinecompliancepanel.com

5. Objectives of the Presentation:
The major objectives of the presentation are to
cover a lot of topics including,
• The Joint Commission Requirements
• Unintended Consequences of Silencing Alarms
• AACN Best Practices
• AAMI Approaches
• Johns Hopkins Alarm Experience and
Recommendations
• California Hospital Patient Safety Organization Issues
Identification
• Successes at Boston Medical Center
• Success at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical
Center
• Systems Approach to Improving Efficiency and
Effectiveness
www.onlinecompliancepanel.com | 510-857-5896 | customersupport@onlinecompliancepanel.com

6. Who can Benefit:
All connected with patient care in hospitals such as nurses, doctors, supervisors, and
support staff will benefit highly. Senior management needs to understand the risks and
solutions.
www.onlinecompliancepanel.com | 510-857-5896 | customersupport@onlinecompliancepanel.com

7. Live Session - How it works
• Username and Password will be sent
to you 24 hours prior to the webinar
• Presentation handouts in pdf formate
will be mailed to you
• Login to the session using the
username and password provided to
you
• Get answer to your queries through
interactive Q&A sessions via chat
• Please let us know your thoughts and
views at the end of webinar, your
valuable feedback will help us
improve
• Get certification of attendance.
Recorded Session - How it
works
• A link will be provided to you upon
purchase of the recorded session
• Please click on the link to access the
session
• Presentation handouts in pdf formate
will be mailed to you
• Get certification of attendance.
www.onlinecompliancepanel.com | 510-857-5896 | customersupport@onlinecompliancepanel.com

8. Get Connected :
www.onlinecompliancepanel.com
www.onlinecompliancepanel.com | 510-857-5896 | customersupport@onlinecompliancepanel.com