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J Am Med Inform Assoc 12:589-595 doi:10.1197/jamia.M1863
  • The Practice of Informatics

Enhanced Notification of Critical Ventilator Events

Table 3

Average Critical Ventilator Alarm Duration Times* (in Seconds) by ICU and Event Type (10/1/2004 to 3/31/2005)

CCICU MSICU STICU TICU Type Average Range
Unintended disconnection 25.0 22.5 22.4 25.1 23.3 10–55
Water in tubing 18.3 60.0 13.4 13.8 14.3 9–60
During procedure 16.7 22.9 18.6 18.7 19.6 9–45
Other 21.4 15.6 24.4 19.5 20.4 10–50
Undetermined 20.8 25.8 21.7 18.8 20.6 9–67
ICU average 21.0 22.0 20.4 20.0 20.5
Range 15–40 10–67 9–55 9–50

  • ICU = Intensive Care Unit; CCICU = Coronary Care; MSICU = Medical/Surgical; STICU = Shock/Trauma; TICU = Thoracic.

  • ↵* Due to ten-second delay, the duration of enhanced alerts would average about ten seconds less than the reported time.

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