...motion sensor lights that can automatically turn on/off based on your presence in a room. • It can read changes in energy, detect heat and movement using infrared, microwave radiations and sound waves. • It has a capability to detect false alarms using dual technology motion sensor. • If any of the sensors are tampered automatic notification will be triggered. • It can also be useful in opening garage doors when it is approached by a car. • You can customize all notifications and setup threat levels based on your needs. Smoke detector • Smoke alarm provides a life saving warning to allow you to get out of the house in case of fire or smoke. • It can detect the purity of air and can give you the levels of different gaseous elements. • It can trigger the sprinkling system incase of a fire. • It triggers an alarm when you have lot of smoke coming from cooking in a kitchen. • It can monitor the temperature of the room and set the AC levels accordingly. • It can automatically open the doors and windows when a fire incident occur. • It can trigger notifications directly to the fire department in case of fire emergency. Gas leakage detector • It detects deviations from normal or base line conditions to produce an alarm. • It detects for any leaks or holes in the gas pipeline. • It can...
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...Senior Services and Chronic Fatigue According to the National Institute of Health, fatigue is a "common clinical complaint among older adults for which multiple definitions and measurement instruments exist. Fatigue is often a symptom of underlying medical or psychiatric illness." One of the greatest problems with chronic fatigue is that, while it is common, it is almost impossible to diagnose consistently. While the symptoms of fatigue typically include chronic tiredness and exhaustion, many seniors also complain of physical or cognitive decline or an inability to complete tasks. Measuring "tiredness", "decline", or slower performance is very difficult and relative, thus the complexity in diagnosing chronic fatigue. Many researchers have added "qualifiers" to help understand a senior's troubles. Examples are defining the condition as cognitive fatigue, muscular fatigue, or emotional fatigue. Further complicating matters, chronic fatigue syndrome is an ailment in which the symptoms of fatigue have no medical conditions to explain the problems. Yet, the fatigue could be caused by any number of medical problems including hypothyroidism, multiple sclerosis, heart disease, lung disease, or even rheumatoid arthritis or depression. Misdiagnosing the problem could lead to severe complications by missing an underlying condition. Many times seniors will have a hard time explaining the changes the are occurring. Senior services providers are often able to relate what they have seen...
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...When working in the hospital setting, every health care worker has been exposed to many different types of sounds. Whether it is cardiac monitors, phone calls, patient call-lights, bed alarms, feeding pumps, or IV medication machines, nurses are exposed to an extraordinary amount of noises while at work. Being exposed to constant sounds can become exhausting over a 12 hour shift, and many nurses can develop alarm fatigue. Alarm fatigue is when clinicians can become overwhelmed due to the sheer number of alarms and therefore become desensitized (Joint Commission, 2013). Regardless if every alarm that sounds needs a clinical intervention, if nurses develop alarm fatigue, it can be hazardous to their patient’s safety. With alarm fatigue,...
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...information: 1. Information related to the quality or health of the transmission signal, and 2. Information related to its own internal hardware/software integrity. The functional components of surveillance are performance monitoring and alarm/status monitoring, also known as alarm surveillance. In the national and international standards area for telecommunications operations, performance monitoring and alarm surveillance are classified as subcategories of the more general system management functional categories of performance management and fault management, respectively. Maintenance consists of both preventive and corrective procedures that are designed to (a) prevent troubles and identify potential troubles before they affect service, and (b) detect a network failure that impacts performance and make the appropriate repair(s). A typical seven-step maintenance process consists of: 1. Trouble Detection — Detect trouble by continuous monitoring, periodic tests, per-call or other pre-action tests, or other automatic processes. 2. Trouble Notification — Send notification of a specific event or condition to a local display or Operations System (OS). Trouble notifications include output messages and visual and audible alarms. 3. Service Recovery — Minimize the degradation of service by automatic or manual protection actions. 4. Trouble Verification — Determine whether the reported condition still exists. 5. Trouble Isolation — Isolate the trouble to its...
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...Monitoring central stations in Canada are the watchful eye on properties and Personal Safety. They dispatch the premises if there is any burglar alarm and contact the people on the calling list. Police response to "burglar" alarms dates back decades in many major communities, to the days when such alarms rang directly into the local station or precinct. Today the monitored alarm industry in North America is a huge multi-million dollar sector employing thousands of people across the continent. The growth of alarmed locations across the country spurred on by elevated "crime fear" indexes, and by the perception of elevated property crime levels. The growth in this industry has had a direct impact upon the demand for police services in our communities. The monitored alarm industry is a private sector anomaly. The alarm customer is afforded the right, in most communities, to free access to police services. However, they chose to employ a third party, the alarm monitoring company, to monitor their electronic alarm, and then to activate the services of the police, when required. It is an unfortunate historic fact that this activation is almost always improper, with 95% of the alarms responded to being false. For providing this service, the alarm company obtains a fee, and notifies the public policing agency who then attends the site of the alarm. ADT for example encourages retailers and businesses to participate in Code Adam, one of the largest child-safety programs in North America...
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...In a hospital setting, there are a plethora of noises being simultaneously heard by nurses. Although biomedical alarms measuring pulse oximetry readings, heart rate, blood pressure and EKG rhythms are the main culprits of alarms-there are also patient call bells, bed alarms, IV Pump signals, ventilator alarms, etc. Hearing such repetitive sounds for long periods of time leads professionals to become desensitized, decreasing alertness and confidence in the seriousness to respond to these alarms resulting in what is now coined “alarm fatigue” (Bridi, Thiago, Lyra de Silva, 2013). Leading the list of patient safety initiatives, Joint Commission has deemed alarm fatigue a safety concern and a top priority in healthcare settings. In January 2014,...
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...The AAMI Foundation recently published a new white paper as part of its HTSI Safety Innovations series that explores alarm management strategies from a military perspective. According to Daniel McFarlane, Sc.D. of Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories, the approaches being used across hospital settings continue to present similar challenges: ignored alarm signals because of fatigue, lengthy practitioner response rates to alarms, and provider confusion over which alarms are important. “The lack of actionable intelligence from alarm signals makes it impossible for nurses to effectively triage their multitasking among multiple patients,” noted Dr. McFarlane. “Each alarm feature considers only local conditions on separate sensors on separate instruments for separate patients. The result is an overwhelming rate of alarm signals from multiple devices associated with multiple patients that do not carry the context of information needed for nurses to understand the signals relative to their responsibility to triage their efforts.” There are 9 types of clinical context facilitated by an advanced alarm management platform that work together with advanced rules to reduce alarm fatigue and increase situational awareness: 1. Alarm Context: supplemental data delivered with an alarm or event notification; e.g. multiple data points including blood pressure, respiratory rate, and SpO2. 2. Patient Context: supplemental data about the patient derived from a real-time interface...
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...Combating Alarm Fatigue: A Matter of Life and Death Alarm Fatigue Nurses, especially in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), use information from a multitude of medical devices, particularly cardiac monitors, to guide them in providing care for their patients. Unfortunately, due to the frequency of unnecessary and false alarms, the devices that are meant to help nurses actually can do the opposite. Alarm fatigue can develop when a nurse is frequently exposed to an unnecessary number of alarms. "This situation can result in sensory overload, which may cause the person to become desensitized to the alarms" (Sendelbach & Jepsen, 2013. p.1). All nurses need to be aware of this important safety issue and institute practices to reduce the number of unnecessary and false alarms. History of Topic Over the last 60 years, many advances in clinical alarms and technology were put in place "to notify staff of equipment malfunctions or changes in patient condition" (Hannibal, 2011. p.418). In March 2012, a 17 year old girl sustained an anoxic brain injury and later died after the recovery room nurses failed to recognize and intervene when her respiratory condition and vital signs declined. This was because the alarms "were not properly set and was muted" ("Teen's death", 2013 p.61). "According to The Joint Commission's Sentinel Event database, hospitals voluntarily reported 80 deaths and 13 severe injuries that...
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...Consumer Information FCC Notice This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If interference generated by this unit is suspected, call Brink’s Customer Care at 1-800-445-0872. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures: ♦ Re-orient the radio/television antenna; ♦ Move the television or receiver away from the unit. ♦ Plug the unit and the TV/radio receiver into different outlets, i.e. not on the same circuit breaker. ♦ Contact Brinks Home Security or an experienced TV/Radio technician for additional suggestions. ♦ Review additional instructions on www.mybrinks.com. This equipment complies with FCC Rules, Part 68. On the outside of this equipment is a label that contains, among other information, the FCC Registration Number and Ringer Equivalence Number (REN) for this equipment. If requested...
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...Alarm Fatigue Alarm fatigue is a growing national problem within the health care industry that links medical technology as a serious hazard that poses a significant threat to patient safety within hospitals across the country. Alarm fatigue occurs when nurses encounter an overwhelming amount of alarms thus becoming desensitized to the firing alarms. Alarm desensitization is a multifaceted issue that is related to the number of alarming medical devices, a high false alarm rate, and the lack of alarm standardization in hospitals today (Cvach, 2012). Desensitization can lead to delayed response times, alarms silenced or turned off, or alarms adjusted to unsafe limits, which can create a dangerous situation for the patient. Alarm fatigue has been identified as having negative effects on patients as well as healthcare professionals. Many hospitals have reported that alarm-related injuries have occurred due to the overwhelming amount of constant sounding alarms. Critical alarms cause nurses to tune out sounds, which in turn triggers the brain to adjust to stimulation, thus causing a healthcare professional to disregard the alarms. Hospital alarms can come from an array of devices including blood pressure machines, oxygen saturation devices, sleep apnea devices, fall prevention alarms, intravenous pumps, patient-controlled analgesia pumps, patient call systems, ventilators, telephones, anti-embolism pumps, and heart monitors. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the problem...
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...First my alarm goes off I open my eyes and reach over to my phone and turn the alarm of then I check my phone. I lay in the bed staring at the ceiling for about 5 minutes then I throw the covers off me and swing my legs around and get out of bed. I rub my eyes and stretch as I walk to my room door. I reach for the knob I turn it and open the door. I walk to the bathroom door turn the knob and open it I walk in and close the door behind me. I close my eyes and reach for the light bulbs and turn 2 of the 3 off because it hurts my eyes. I then use the bathroom and turn the sink on I wash my hands and then I grab my toothbrush apply toothpaste and put the toothbrush in my mouth and brush my teeth. When I’m done with that I then wash my face with my electric brush....
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...first step in Goldratt’s theory of constraints is to identify the system constraint and decide how to exploit the system constraints and subordinate everything else to that decision”( Chase,2006). To improve a process and increase efficiency, bottlenecks in the process must be identified. “To maximize the system production the slowest process must be improved, and all other processes are regulated to the speed of the slowest process”.(Taylor, 2008).One of the bottlenecks identified by me from my data analysis of the process of getting ready for work was when the alarm rings, whether to get up immediately or hit the snooze button and sleep a little more. I averaged an additional 10 minutes in the process because of hitting the snooze button of the alarm clock several times before finally getting out of bed. To overcome this bottleneck, I must wake up when the alarm rings for the first time and not hit the snooze time. I must go to bed earlier so that I get enough sleep and avoid the need for hitting the snooze button The other bottleneck identified by me in the process of getting ready for work was my preparation of the breakfast meal. In three out of the five days. I prepared an elaborate breakfast resulting in the addition of 15 minutes to the entire process. On the two days that I skipped breakfast due to...
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... | |Reference: |Effectiveness of bed alarms over bed rails in reducing falls in patients aged 65 and above | |Scope and Purpose. What are the scope and purpose of this document? What are the objectives, question, and target population (patients,| |consumers, students, etc.)? In other words, who are the recipients of the services outlined in the document? | |The paper focuses on bed exit alarms and their effectiveness in preventing bed falls. The scope and purpose of the paper is based on | |studies done by various researchers on bed alarms. The document’s target population includes patients, nurses and families. | |Stakeholder Involvement. What professions are represented in the document? Have members of the target population been consulted in the | |development of the document? What conflicts of interest are possible? | |Professions represented in the document include nurses, reseachers professors and editors. There is enough evidence that the members of| |the target population played a role in the documents development. Conflicting interest such as preference of bed rails over alarms are | |possible with the researchers not being able to exactly pinpoint the most effective method. | |Rigor...
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...Daniel Ochoa Instructor E. Gooden Writing 100 7 May 2013 Surreal You ever had those dreams when you sleep like premonitions? I have them once in a while and rarely do they come true. At first it was like any normal day for me wake up and ready for school. The start of my day is usually me fighting my alarm that goes off five times. I always manage to hit the snooze button in my sleep every time it goes off upsetting my mom who also wakes up. After hearing her rant I get up before I have to deal with her wrath. I grab my close groggily, brush my teeth, and awaken myself in the shower with warm water. Leave the house and catch the bus headed for school. This is my usual uneventful daily routine. At school I always skip breakfast walking around campus with friends. When the bell rings it’s time for class, and the usual exertion of listening to teachers and work. After a long day of frying my brain at school, it was time to go home. The bells chimed, and there was chatter everywhere inside the school. Most teenagers were bustling to leave while I was a zombie, groggily swaying with the crowd until I reached the bus. Falling as I missed my footing, I heard giggles and laughter everywhere. As soon as I reached a seat in the bus, I crashed into a deep slumber. Waking to the sound of people getting off the bus, I got ready to walk home limbered my legs and got off the bus. Walked home at a leisurely pace. Like my usual routine I first walked the girl that I like to her house...
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...Marshall Bruce awoke from his slumber harshly, as his alarm clock's obnoxious ringing pierced through the air. Moments later, Marshall reached for his alarm clock, knocking over the numerous beers on the bedside table, however, managing to hit the snooze button, just as he lays his head back down into his plush pillow to fall back asleep. Just as Marshall started to fall back asleep, when he hears loud footsteps from the apartment above followed by the bathroom door slamming shut, and the shower started. Moments later his phone begins to ring and Marshall thinks to himself, "Would it make a difference if I just ignored whoever is calling me and just lay here and go back to bed?". Just as Marshall snaps back to reality, he reaches over and picks up his phone, just barely getting a long enough glimpse at the screen to see it's his partner, Curtis James, calling him....
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