Multicentric study of monitoring alarms in the adult intensive care unit (ICU): a descriptive analysis.

Objectives: To assess the relevance of current monitoring alarms as a warning system in the adult ICU.

Design: Prospective, observational study.

Settings: Two university hospital, and three general hospital, ICUs.

Introduction of knowledge bases in patient's data management system: role of the user interface.

As the number of signals and data to be handled grows in intensive care unit, it is necessary to design more powerful computing systems that integrate and summarize all this information. The manual input of data as e.g.