User Experience Design for Intensive Care Alarm Management

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2024 Aug 22:316:1761-1762. doi: 10.3233/SHTI240771.

Abstract

Alarm fatigue is a pressing issue in intensive care units. Based on user experience design, including clinical shadowings and feedback loops, we developed a prototype for a redesigned patient monitor: The prototype moves away from today's threshold-based alarm systems. It combines a sleek design with machine learning driven clinical insights to mitigate alarm fatigue.

Keywords: Alarm Fatigue; Intensive Care Medicine; User Experience Design.

MeSH terms

  • Alert Fatigue, Health Personnel / prevention & control
  • Clinical Alarms*
  • Critical Care
  • Equipment Design
  • Humans
  • Intensive Care Units
  • Machine Learning
  • Monitoring, Physiologic
  • User-Computer Interface