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An innovative solution leveraging seamless interoperability to enhance alarm management in the ICU. By reducing noise and improving workflow efficiency, our Silent ICU contributes to a more comfortable patient environment and a more effective workspace for caregivers.
Alarms from medical devices can be reliably distributed to central dashboard(s) and mobile devices in a Confirmed Distributed Alarm System according to ISO/IEC 60601-1-8:2020 (CDAS). Each caregiver receives clinical alarms for their patients, with full clinical context, enabling them to make quick decisions and help to improve their workflow efficiency, wherever they are in the unit.
Caregivers can be confident that alarms will be attended to. In case of unavailability, the alarm is automatically redirected to a backup team member. A clear redirection chain ensures no alarm goes unanswered, making a positive contribution to patient safety.
Medical device alarms can be silenced at the patient’s bedside while ensuring reliable distribution to caregivers. In addition to reducing noise for patients and family, this feature allows the doors of the ICU rooms to be closed, creating an even quieter environment and preventing infection control.
If the network connection is lost, caregivers are notified and medical devices revert to audible alarms, ensuring patient safety until connectivity is restored.
Support the transition from your existing to new medical devices at the pace decided by the hospital. Ascom integrates legacy and new devices, supporting silencing capability, by providing uniform workflows in the alarm management solution.
From a few beds to several units, or multiple hospitals.
The solution uses the ISO/IEEE 11073-SDC standard for secure, authenticated, and encrypted data transfer within the hospital’s on-premise system.
Excessive noise and disturbances in the ICU can negatively impact patient rest, recovery and well-being. It can also increase stress and alarm fatigue for clinical staff, with the risk of missing critical alarms. This can lead to a range of problems for patients, staff, and the effective running of the ICU, including:
With active alarm management at its core, the Silent ICU solution, jointly developed by Ascom, Dräger and B. Braun, is designed to help reduce noise pollution and alarm fatigue to provide a better healing environment, patient care and working environment.
The Silent ICU solution seamlessly, automatically, and securely transfers data between devices and management systems based on international standards such as ISO/IEEE 11073 SDC.
The solution enables alarms to be transferred to the Ascom-distributed alarm system. Alarms are visualized on one or several dashboards that can be located at the nurse station and where teams need them. In addition, actionable alarms are simultaneously routed to the right caregiver at the right time. Meanwhile, at the bedside, the medical device alarms remain silent, which significantly reduces noise levels in the ICU.
