Clinical Alarm Management Market: Overview
Clinical alarms are used to warn
caregivers of potential adverse or immediate patient conditions. The
Association of Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, a non-profitable
organization, focuses on the use and development of effective and safe
medical equipment. It recognizes alarm management to be a key concern
among health care organizations. The rise in technological advancements
in the hospital sector and initiations in other medical firms have
created awareness over the period of past 25 years. These advancements
led to complicated, improved, and sophisticated health monitoring
equipment. These advanced health monitoring equipment are manufactured
with in-built audible alarms. These alarms are intentionally integrated
to alert technicians, operators, or clinicians of any deviation from a
preprogrammed or predetermined “normal” status. It is considered to be a
pointer tool in improving the safety of patients. This information is
further communicated by the operator or clinician to the patient or the
concern person.
In the past, only a few medical devices
in hospitals had alarm facility. The scenario has reversed since then.
Most of the medical devices are manufactured with an alarm function. In
acute care units, alarms are generated by a number of devices including
respiratory monitoring equipment, infusion pumps, bed or chair alarms,
feeding pumps, wound vacuum devices, cardiac monitors, ventilators,
patient call systems, and sequential compression devices. There is a set
standards for alarm sounds by manufacturers of a particular device. It
is the responsibility of the caregivers to distinguish the audible
alarms and to react based on the situation, according to the importance
of the alarm sound. An alarm is an immediate warning aimed at making
caregivers attentive toward the differing parameters of the device.
Alarms of devices are predetermined, with many levels or categories or
options which may or may not follow a hierarchical order. The
hierarchical order of a physiologic monitor is detection of
life-threatening situation (crisis alarm), detection of life threatening
device malfunction (system failure), detection of imminent danger
(warning alarm), detection of potential device malfunction (system
warning), and detection of unsafe situation (advisory alarm). The
severity of a particular alarm is determined by the kind of sound
emitted. For example, an advisory alarm is distinctly different from a
crisis alarm. Clinicians or technicians recognize and use the sound of
an alarm to determine how fast or what to respond. Alarms in therapeutic
devices do not have a hierarchical order, hence the alarm sounds the
same pattern continuously, regardless of the situation
Clinical Alarm Management Market: Key Trends
Increase in the geriatric population,
awareness about patient safety, rise in prevalence of chronic diseases,
and surge in alarm fatigue are the major drivers of the global clinical
alarm management market. However, adverse events and complications
associated with devices and lack of product standardization are the
factors anticipated to hamper market growth during the forecast period.
Clinical Alarm Management Market: Segmentation
The global clinical alarm management
market can be segmented based on component, product, end-user, and
region. In terms of component, the global market can be bifurcated into
solutions and services. The services segment can be classified into
implementation & integration and consulting. The solutions segment
is projected to account for major market share during the forecast
period. Based on product, the global clinical alarm management market
can be categorized into nurse call systems, physiological monitors, bed
alarms, EMR integration systems, ventilators, and others (pulse
oximeters and infusion pumps). Usage of EMR integration systems is
anticipated to rise during the forecast period due to technological
developments. In terms of end-user, the global market can be divided
into hospitals, long-term care centers, ambulatory care centers &
home care settings, and others. The ambulatory care centers & home
care settings segment is expected to capture significant market share
during the forecast period.
Clinical Alarm Management Market: Regional Analysis
In terms of region, the global clinical
alarm management market can be segmented into North America, Asia
Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and Middle East & Africa. North
America is likely to be a major market during the forecast period. The
region’s dominance is attributed to strategic presence of key players in
the U.S. and Canada.
Clinical Alarm Management Market: Competitive Landscape
Key players operating in the global
clinical alarm management market are Medtronic, General Electric
Company, Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd., Baxter,
Vocera Communications, Extension, LLC, Koninklijke Philips N.V., Ascom,
Spok, Inc., and Bernoulli, among others.
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