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en: Microbiology book series2(2) --- UVA-LED Air Disinfection

en: Formatex research center

ja: Formatex research center


en: Integrated Alarm Monitoring System in the ICU

en: Auerbach Pub

ja: Auerbach Pub

en: The prevention of human errors which are relevant to medical devices is important and serious issue in hospitals. In order to guarantee patient's safety, it is necessary to analyze the cause of errors in detail using error reporting with the electronic Error Reporting System (ERS). In the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the High Care Unit (HCU), a network based alarm monitoring system which can monitor the state of patient and medical device from a distance is convenient and essential. This chapter describes the integrated alarm monitoring system for life support medical device which has alarm functions in the ICU. An advantage of the integrated alarm monitoring system is to provide a fail-safe structure to protect patient life. When the system only monitors single device where abnormality of power source trouble occurs, the change of patient state may not be notified. The integrated monitoring enables to notify the abnormality in complementary form. The system communicates with medical device using a dedicated interface, i.e. Data Collection Interface (DCI), which converts communication protocol from RS-232C to TCP/IP. The development of the integrated monitoring may be useful to realize a new concept of error reporting which integrates the monitoring system and the ERS.