Exploring adequate ways of medical audible alarm in Japanese clinical contests.

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24659249
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Medical sociology
• Research Institution: Tokyo Medical University
• Principal Investigator: Kakinuma Takayasu 東京医科大学, 医学部, 講師 (80366111)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SOUMA TAKAHIRO 千葉大学, 医学部附属病院, 教授 (90262435) ; UCHINO HIROYUKI 東京医科大学, 医学部, 教授 (60266476) ; YAMAUCHI TOYOAKI 名古屋大学, 医学研究科, 教授 (20301830) ; FUJISAWA YOSHIKAZU 静岡県立大学, 経営情報学部, 准教授 (70387330)
• Research Collaborator: RA SYUGYOKU
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: リスクマネジメント / 麻酔科学 / アラーム機器 / 医療機器 / 医療安全 / ヒューマン・ファクター

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The main evidence of this research was to show that medical audible alarm was very important to improve patient safety if it could be managed in adequate ways. But Anesthesiologists could not do it, specifically they could not share alarm issues with other health professionals.
It would be necessary to have a new educational program for Anesthesiologist to manage this issue, especially focusing on communication matters. Moreover, there were organizational obstacles of right ways of medical audible alarms to improve patient safety. Organizations should establish systems to support Anesthesiologist to adequately handle with medical audible alarms.

Free Research Field

麻酔科学、医療安全学、人間医工学