A Study of Silent Alarm Delivery Versus Standard Audible Alarm Delivery in Intensive Care and High Dependency Units

Conditions: Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit, Burnout, Healthcare Workers, Noise in the ICU, Alarm Fatigue, Alarm Fatigue in Intensive Care Unit Nurses, Alarms, Nursing Workload

Sex: All

Ages: 18 Years – N/A

Healthy volunteers: No

Phase: NA

Enrollment: 311

Sponsor: MindWave Medical Inc

Summary

The goal of the trial is to learn if a strategy to eliminate audible alarm noise in intensive care and high dependency units can reduce overall noise levels, patient delirium, staff alarm fatigue, and staff burnout. Researchers will implement a silent alarm strategy in specific care units for four weeks and compare this to a separate 4 weeks where a silent strategy is not implemented. Noise, burnout, delirium levels, and staff alarm response times will be compared between the silent and non-silent units.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * Admission to Intensive or high dependency care unit. Exclusion Criteria: * Pre-existing diagnosis of dementia * Endotracheally intubated (may enroll when extubated) * CNS injury, infection, or malignancy as reason for admission.

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT07364097). StuddyBuddy aggregates publicly available trial information.