False clinical alarm rate reduction

摘要

A clinical facility communication network connects a notification system to a plurality of patient monitors and to a plurality of clinician communication devices. Each of the patient monitors operate to detect physiological characteristics associated with a patient and to send event messages to the notification system. The notification system operates to receive the event messages and to determine which of the event messages include information of sufficient clinical significance to warrant generating and sending an alarm to a clinician. The event messages that are determine not to include clinically significant information are ignored.

主权项

1. A method for identifying a clinically significant event, comprising:
setting a value in a virtual call point for each of a clinically significant event duration, a clinical event count period and a clinical event count threshold; receiving at the virtual call point a plurality of clinical events associated with a patient the duration of at least some of which are detected to be less than the value set for the clinically significant event duration, and maintaining a current count of the clinical events having a duration that is less than the value set for the clinically significant event duration; and determining that the current count of clinical events having a duration that is less than the value set for the clinically significant event duration is equal to the count threshold value prior to the event count period expiring and determining that the patient is experiencing a clinically significant event.