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Opinion: Critical Care nurses get news They can't UseJudith Mitiguy, RN, MS, Executive Vice President, Communications nurses & initiatives Welcome for Critical Care, specialty section which is full of news and information designed to meet your needs.

Our main feature will help you understand and combat the dangers of the alarm and desensitization, fatigue phenomenon you?ve heard many about in the popular press and news nursing this year.E.g. disaster of BP oil wells, newspapers reported that administrators had aimed at technicians to partially disable alarms in the well to not wake of crew to sleep with false alerts in the middle of the noche.Una tragedy of enormous magnitude could have been avoided if alarms had been established and met.

This year, a fatal incident in the general hospital in Boston Massachusetts made the headlines of nursing and national when a patient waiting for a heart surgery for a pacemaker developed bradycardia, arrested and died.He had been on this tomorrow, but not found pulseless in his room shortly after, and the computer code could not revive him.Hospital officials reported to his seat in the position of ?off?. alarm volume Furthermore staff not to hear alarms nurses? station or note printing of ECG that is automatically activated by the downhill fast and dangerous patient?s frequency cardíaca.El hospital has since instituted several measures to prevent recurrence of this and similar situations and developed a training programme for staff, information that may be useful in practice settings.

In addition, our top story explores the effects of physical fatigue, mental and emotional long overtime-related changes and lives full crowded with home, school and work and stress associated with responsibilities which can contribute to the alarm desensitization and other patient safety violations.

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