ICU medical alarm system using IoT
by Fahd Alharbi
International Journal of Cloud Computing (IJCC), Vol. 10, No. 4, 2021

Abstract: Monitoring in the intensive care units (ICU) is an essential task to patient health and safety. The monitoring systems provide physicians and nurses with the ability to intervene when there is a deterioration in patient's condition. The ICU monitoring system uses audio alarms to alert about critical conditions of the patient or when there is a medical device failure. Unfortunately, there are cases of failure to respond to medical alarms that endanger the patient safety and result in death. The main reasons for the lack of responding to the alarms are alarm fatigue and alarm masking. In this paper, these issues are investigated and we propose a monitoring system using internet of things (IoT) to continually report the ICU medical alarm to doctors, nurses and family.

Online publication date: Mon, 29-Nov-2021

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