2011 AAMI Medical Device Alarm Summit
The AAMI Medical Device Alarm Summit took place on October 4-5, 2011 in Herndon, VA. It was co-convened by The Joint Commission, ECRI Institute, and the American College of Clinical Engineering.
Following the model of the successful 2010 AAMI-FDA Infusion Device Summit, stakeholders developed priorities on the key issues with the safety and effectiveness of medical device/system alarms.
Over a recent four-year period, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reportedly received more than 500 reports of patient deaths related to alarms on monitoring devices. This topic has been the focus of national media attention, Joint Commission sentinel alerts, a special ECRI Institute report, a special AAMI issue of Horizons (May 2011) , and peer-reviewed articles from all three conveners plus many other organizations. Alarm safety was one of the top issues in AAMI and ECRI surveys on "Top 10" issues.
Summit Resources:
- Alarm Summit Publication
- Presentations from the Medical Device Alarms Summit, October 4-5, 2011
- Summit attendee list
- Priorities identified at the summit
- Complete alarm summit summary notes
- Alarms research gaps identified at summit
- Alarm Summit Supporting Organizations
- Hospital Patients Feel The Noise Nov 2011
- White Paper: Clinical alarms & fatalities resulting from ‘alarm fatigue’ in hospitals: perspectives from clinical medicine, acoustical science, signal processing, noise control engineering & human factors Oct 2011
- Medical Device Alarms Related Terminology
- 2011 Healthcare Technology Foundation Alarms Survey Results 2011
- Acoustic, individual, and situational determinants of vegetative and cortical arousals induced by traffic noise during sleep July 2011
- Fall Summit Aims to Develop Action Plan May 1, 2011
- Horizons: Improving Medical Alarm Systems Spring 2011
- Alarming Monitor Problems, FDA Patient Safety News January 2011
- Alarm Algorithms in Critical Care Monitoring, Michael Imhoff, MD, PhD and Silvia Kuhls, Dipl.-Stat 2006
Questions? Contact Chris Dinegar, Vice President, Education at +1 703-253-8270 or e-mail cdinegar@aami.org.