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Patient-Centric Alarm Management for Improving Care Quality
Session 147, February 22, 2017Fernando Stein, MD, FAAP, FCCM
Joellan Mullen MSN, RN, CCRN-K
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Speaker Introduction
Fernando Stein, MD, FAAP, FCCM
President of the American Academy of Pediatrics
Professor of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children’s Hospital
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Speaker Introduction
Joellan Mullen MSN, RN, CCRN-K
Clinical Specialist
Progressive Care Unit
Texas Children’s Hospital
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Conflict of Interest and Disclosures
The authors declare they do not have any relevant or material financial
interests that relate to the material described in this presentation.
All data in this presentation acquired from Texas Children’s Hospital data
management.
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Agenda• History of monitoring and patient alarms
• Iterative improvements and understanding through Plan-Do-Study-Act
(PDSA) cycles
• Improving alarm management with patient-centric alarms and additional
PDSA cycles
• Conclusion: data makes communication possible, communication improves
care
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Learning Objectives
• Evaluate the role of patient monitoring and alarms in the modern critical care
unit
• Show how PDSA cycles lead to ongoing alarm management improvement
• Identify how patient-centric alarm management and analytics improves care
and outcomes
• Explain why opening communication channels among clinicians is a key to
successful alarm management
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An introduction to the benefits realized for the value of Health IT
Patients,
nurses
Efficiency,
quality of
care, safety
Enhanced,
communication,
data reporting,
data sharing
Prevention
benefits, patient
education
Efficiency,
operations
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Five Principles of Leadership
1. Challenge the Process2. Inspire a Shared Vision3. Enable Others to Act4. Model the Way5. Encourage the Heart
Kouzes and Posner
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Part 1: History and Background
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Mother falling asleep after watching her sick daughter all night…
“Vigil”: The act of keeping awake at times when sleeping is customary.
Act or period of time of watching or surveillance.(Webster)
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Diana Cooper De Bakey1909-1972
Retrieved on January 3, 2017 from
https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retriev
e/Narrative/FJ/p-nid/322/p-
visuals/true
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Old Monitor New Monitor
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54 Potential Alarm Sounds: Many Equal
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The Illusion Of Monitoring
• It tells us that something DID happen
• It is after the fact information
• It can be distracting
• Occasionally useful
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Status QuoTotal number of alarms per occupied bed in a 24 hr. period
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Too Many Alarms for Nurses
Average Alarms per nurse
per shift: over 250
Or: 1 alarm every 3
minutes for 12 hours
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Alarm floods: over 10 alarms in 10 minutes!
Average 87 floods
per day
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“If you throw too much at a person at once, the person cannot possibly process all the input in real time”
-Emma Fauss
Experiments in Multitasking
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Consequences
ALARM FATIGUE
Desensitization to alarms due to overexposure
Desensitization can lead to longer response times
or missing critical alarms.
Alarms become meaningless!
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Effects of Alarm Fatigue
• Alarms contribute to distraction and
not to better monitoring
• Nursing work flow is disrupted
• Increase in patient family anxiety and
dissatisfaction
• Increase in provider anxiety and
dissatisfaction
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Part 2: PDSA Cycles for improving Alarm Management
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Approach
• TCH formed Alarm Management Steering Committee
• Chose Progressive Care Unit (PCU) for study
• “How can alarms be used best within a hospital unit?”
• Initial data collected through technical partnership with Medical Informatics Corp (MIC) to understand alarm environment quantitatively
• Partnership maintained and changes made through series of Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles
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Each PDSA cycle reduced Alarms
PDSA:
PDSA:PDSA:
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Baseline PDSA: Measure alarms in Unit
Dashboard used for on-demand daily summary of alarms
During baseline study,
230,000 alarms
recorded in 60 days
Nurses averaged 250
alarms per shift,
compared to a
recommended 150
alarms
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Baseline PDSA: Drill into the Data
Dashboard used to “drill-down” into alarms, by bed, nurse, or specific alarm.
One patient
experienced 600
alarms in 24 hours
One nurse spent 11
hours out of a 12 hour
shift in alarm flood
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Quick Win: Garbage cans
Noise will wake
babies and cause
alarms
Change garbage
cans so the lids
close quietly
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Quiet Rooms at Night Mean Better Sleep
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PDSA: Analyze The Alarm Data
Cumulative contribution
of each parameter
SpO2 >50% of total
SpO2 Lo is a particular
offender
Only 15 types of alarms
caused almost 98% of
all alarms
TCH policy: SpO2 Lo
Alarm limit at 93%
So let’s revisit the
policy, and set a new
SpO2 Lo Alarm limit at
90%...
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PDSA: Make Needed Policy Changes
13% reduction of total
alarms in unit
10% reduction in
alarms per bed per day
15% reduction in
alarms less than 10
seconds long
No Adverse Effects
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Part 3: Patient-Centric Alarms
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Policy is set for population averages
• Traditional alarm settings “one-size-fits-all”, population-based approach
• Alarms should be customized on patient-by-patient basis
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One-Size-Fits-Some• Identified four types of alarming patients
Outside of population normal, but clinically stable
Outside of desired physiological
bounds, clinically unstable or in
transition
Clinically stable and highly active
Injury or physical abnormality resulting in continuous
monitoring artifacts
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Development of Patient-Specific Alarm Rounding Protocol
Under 2 minutes per
patient
Physicians engaged
during rounds
39 patients observed
with high alarms, 10
limit orders were
changed
Positive response to
use of data and patient
analytics
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Managing alarms – Nurse’s Stories• Used during rounding
– Brady alarm limits changed after 56 alarms in 3 hours
• Used for critical thinking
– 6 month old with SpO2 lo, HR hi, RR hi alarms found to be well out of range due to intolerance from ventilator weaning
• Used for unique patients
– 19-year-old had pediatric settings on monitor, needed adult settings
“Data changed the conversation from alarms to improved patient care.”
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Results• Physicians engaged
– Less than 2 minutes per patient
– 39 patients with high alarms were observed: 10 times the alarm limit orders were changed
– Example: Patient Alarm Data dashboard used to reduce time in alarm by 4 hours per day for a single patient
– Dashboard used to address changing limits for patient with over 500 alarms in a single night
• Positive response to use of data and patient analytics
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Part 4: Leverage of Technology–the recent PDSA Cycles
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Sat Seconds
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Implementation and Results• Trial on several patients at 30 Sat-Seconds
• Reset all monitors
• Decrease in SpO2 alarms by 25% and overall alarms by 14.99% with a reduction of time in alarm by 21.43%
• Benchmarked with other like organizations and consulted with vendor
• Reset all monitors to 50 Sat-Seconds
• Further decrease in SpO2 alarms by 17.2% and overall alarms by 12.37% with a reduction of time in alarm by 11.8%
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3 to 5-Lead EKG Cables
• More accurate readings of rhythms
– The 3-lead monitors the lateral and inferior portions of the heart whereas the 5-lead adds the anterior
– The 3-lead monitors 3 vectors while the 5-lead monitors 7
• Decrease lead EKG alarm fail
• Decrease respiratory lead alarm fails
Retrieved on January 3, 2017 from
http://rcctelemetrytechniciancours
e.blogspot.com/2015/11/ekg-lead-
placement.html
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Implementation and Results
• Purchased new cables and switched out throughout the unit
• Decrease in EKG fail alarms by 38% and overall alarms by 4.03% with a slight increase in time in alarm by 1.9% likely due to more accurate readings
Retrieved on January 3, 2017 from
https://www.aliexpress.com/cheap/
cheap-ge-ecg-cables.html
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Alarms/Bed/Day in the PCU Median
Changes Alarms/bed/day Reduction Time in Alarm Reduction
Baseline 216.1 6.02
Sat seconds (30) 183.7 14.99% 4.73 21.43%
5 Lead 176.3 4.03% 4.82 -1.9%
Sat seconds (50) 154.5 12.37% 4.25 11.8%
Overall
reduction 28.51% 29.40%
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Part 5: Lessons Learned
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Lessons Learned• Alarm fatigue interferes with patient safety
• People should guide policy and not the other way
• Policy is not always practice
• Every alarm should be actionable
• Data makes communication, communication makes better care
• Use the power of technology
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Challenges• Governance, and enabling shared leadership
– Alarm fatigue is a “nurse’s problem”, but alarm policy is set at the hospital level
– Bring all care providers into conversation
• Changing the conversation
– Physicians had little knowledge of the impact of alarms on nurse staff
– Nurses allowed to own issue of alarm management, suggest changes with data as evidence
• Making the right tools for the right people
– Head nurses used unit-wide Alarm Analytics Dashboard
– Nurses advising physicians on specific patients used a Patient Alarm Data tool
• Education is key
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Conclusions and Outcomes
• Daily dashboards are used by both TCH administrators and care staff to improve the alarm environment in the PCU
• Patient care is emphasized
– One patient saw an 88% decrease in all alarms with a personalized limit change
– One patient saw a complete elimination of PVC HI alarms after adjusting limits based on patient condition
– One patient saw a 63% decrease in RR HI Alarms after they were found to alarm frequently only at night
Patient-Centric and Real-Time analytics can change the conversation,
empower hospital staff, and improve patient care.
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Conclusions and Outcomes
• TCH has become a national thought leader in alarm management
– TCH was selected to present at the AAMI workshop in 2015
– TCH was given the ECRI Health Devices Achievement Award for the project
– The project has been tapped for support of the hospital's MAGNET status
• Overall reduction of alarms in the PCU by 28.51% and decreased time in alarm by 29.40% - alarms reaching bedside staff are meaningful
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Broader Impact
• SpO2 Lo Alarm limit reset to 90% house-wide on monitors and order sets
• Additional units to adopt Sat-Seconds on bedside monitors
• Plan to introduce contextual alarms
• Deeper focus on nurse-led alarm management
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Recommendations
• Perform a baseline analysis of alarms in the unit
• Continue measuring alarms, and empower nurses with this data
• Identify the most frequent alarms, and act
• Encourage further communication through physician engagement
• Investigate technology options
• Keep the "big picture" of noise reduction in mind
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Benefits realized for the value of Health IT
Patients,
nurses
Efficiency,
quality of
care, safety
Enhanced,
communication,
data reporting,
data sharing
Prevention
benefits, patient
education
Efficiency,
operations
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Questions
• E-mail:
• Please complete online session evaluation