Apparatlarm inom intensivvarden

Abstract

The Intensive Care Unit is an environment supplied with high technological equipment and specialized nurse staff who supervise the critical ill patient. The aim of this literature review was to illuminate how the equipment alarm can be of importance to the patient and to the Critical Care Registered Nurse's management. Findings from this study was that equipment alarm is an important environmental factor which can influence the critical ill patient negatively because it can develop the intensive care unit syndrome among patients treated in Intensive Care Units. Finding from this study was also that acoustic alarm from the equipment could be replaced with audiovisual alarm. Already Florence Nightingale pointed out the importance of silence and security to the ill patient and that it was of importance to avoid noise in the environment.