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False Alarm Rejection for ICU ECG Monitoring

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Alarm fatigue, a pain point in clinic, includes ECG false alarm and ECG meaningless alarm. For one thing, ECG false alarm is mainly caused by clinical care, patients’ daily activity and attachment connection failure. Two viable solutions including multi-lead and multi-parameter are provided. For another, ECG meaningless alarm contains arrhythmia class and heart rate over-limit class. Clinical alarm management system improvement and intelligent alarm are proposed in order to reduce ECG meaningless alarm. In a word, this article indicates many effective solutions to relief alarm fatigue.

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    Jian Dai, Zehui Sun & Xianliang He

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    Jianqing Li

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Dai, J., Sun, Z., He, X. (2020). False Alarm Rejection for ICU ECG Monitoring. In: Liu, C., Li, J. (eds) Feature Engineering and Computational Intelligence in ECG Monitoring. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3824-7_12

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