Clinical Services Quieter ICU

Creating a
quieter ICU

How a hospital lowered alarms by 40%^1,2

A hospital in the Netherlands asked Philips Clinical Services to help them lower the number of irrelevant alarms in its new ICU facility—a startling 344 alarms^1,2 per bed per day.

Here’s how a team from Philips and ICU staff worked together to separate the clinically relevant alarms from non-clinically relevant alarms. The result? A transformed environment with improved patient care and staff satisfaction.

Read about its keys to success: the value of an external consultant, the power of objective monitoring data and why change management support is crucial.

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Our patients complained a lot about the noise. Now it’s much quieter and they are more relaxed”

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Footnotes:
¹ Philips customer white paper St. Antonious. Customer testimonial.
² Results from case studies are not predictive of results in other cases. Results in other cases may vary.

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