It’s time to dial down the noise

with a clinical alarm management

Keep your focus on actionable patient alarms

Non-actionable alarms from bedside devices can divert time and attention away from vital patient care. Our clinical alarm management solution categorizes and distributes alarms, helps lead to improved workflow, lower noise levels and enhanced patient care. You can configure our solution to alert caregivers when vital signs reach your chosen thresholds, and to remain silent when events are transient or non-actionable.

With a mobile component that brings alarms and information to caregivers on the go, reporting and analysis tools, and consulting services to fine-tune your approach, you’ll gain control over clinical alarms and dial down the noise.

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Time spent responding to nuisance alarms is time lost for direct patient care.”

- Nurse manager

ICU

Align people, processes and technology

Alarm parameters vary from department to department, and even from patient to patient. Our unique alarm management solution helps you align people, processes and technology to create an end-to-end solution.

To gain a better understanding of the problem of alarm fatigue or to explore our full range of clinical services, click here.

Alarm management solution benefits

Helps decrease non-actionable alarms
Facilitates efficient workflow
Supports caregiver mobility
Provides secure access to patient monitor data
Helps you organize your team efficiently

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At the central station
At the central station

One intuitive view of patient status

PIC iX displays patient status and alerts viewers to alarming events, using a color-coded severity indicator and multi-level audible tones to convey the alarm urgency.

It also forwards alarms from bedside devices – including monitors, ventilators and syringe pumps – to caregivers’ mobile devices and computers.

Clinical decision support tools, such as Alarm Advisor and Alarm Summary, provide a history of most frequent alarms, the triggering thresholds, and the caregivers’ response, so you can adjust parameters – either directly from your PIC iX, or remotely via a web application.

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See how Philips Alarm Advisor alerts a clinician when it appears that alarm parameters may need adjusting to rule out non-actionable alarms.
At the bedside
At the bedside

Be in control of alarming parameters

The fewer unnecessary alarms, the lower the burden on your nursing staff. IntelliVue monitors include Alarm Advisor, an application that tracks the frequency of threshold-crossing alarms and caregiver responses to those alarms. Based on criteria defined by your institution, it provides suggestions for reducing the alarm burden.

IntelliVue Patient Monitors offer diverse clinical decision support tools including Horizon Trends, which provides a graphical display of vital sign changes, and Smart Alarm Delay, an algorithm that aids in reducing nuisance alarms.

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See how Philips Alarm Advisor notifies caregivers and suggests possible modifications to alarm thresholds.
On the patient
On the patient

Signal quality starts with the patient connection

A faulty, loose, or improperly placed electrode or sensor can result in a nuisance alarm, disrupting workflow and keeping caregivers from delivering patient care. We design and manufacture our electrodes and sensors to exacting specifications, so that they deliver clear signals to our monitors, enhancing alarm reliability.

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On the go
On the go

Assess patient information from virtually anywhere

CareEvent delivers alarms and information directly to your smartphone, so you can see clinically relevant patient information even when you are on the go. It shares up to four numerics, four waveforms and associated data from Philips patient monitors, delivering the information you need to assess the alarm or escalate it to another caregiver for review.

At the touch of a button, you can switch from CareEvent to Mobile Caregiver, to view physiological vital signs and to retrospectively review alarm and wave data.

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Watch how with clinical context in their hands, caregivers at Isala Women and Children’s Hospital can make informed decisions to respond to an alarm, escalate to a colleague or rule it non-actionable.

Case study
Hospital decreases alarms by 40%

A hospital in the Netherlands was struggling with the number of irrelevant alarms in its new ICU facility—a startling 344 alarms per bed per day. Here’s how Philips Clinical Services provided methodological support and insight to help drop that number by 40%.¹

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Every root cause we looked at, every change we made, we validated all of it with actual data.”

- Ineke van de Pol

Project champion and ICU - practitioner nurse

[1] Results from case studies are not predictive of results in other cases. Results in other cases may vary.

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Care teams need clinically rich patient information to support continuous collaboration, timely diagnosis, and early intervention. Now you can easily access the data you need for informed decision-making, and communicate and collaborate with colleagues to decide the best course of care – even when you’re on the go.

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