When false alarms pollute intensive care

29. Two EPFL doctoral students created algorithms capable of eliminating false alarms that pollute intensive care units. To do this, they came up with the idea of pairing electrocardiogram data with optical waveform data. Their work has won top honors at the Computing in Cardiology conference at MIT. Intensive care units are known for their incessant symphony of alerts. 90% of them are false alarms, and they are so common that medical staff no longer pay them much heed. These false alarms are the result of several factors, such as when electrodes placed on the patient move, causing artifacts that trigger an alert.
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