In this issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, guest editor Shu-Fen Wung brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Updates on Human Factors and Technology in the ICU. Real-world human interaction and technology and devices are at the heart of care for patients in the intensive care unit. Nurses must address proper instruction, user-technology hazards, and improved nurse-technology interfaces in order to ensure optimal patient care and safety. This issue addresses these matters with articles ranging from intravenous smart pumps, to digital technology to promote family engagement, to technology to reduce pressure injuries, and many more.- Contains 13 relevant, practice-oriented topics including the impact of technology on critical care nurses; the value of a nurse-engineer team to evaluate technology for patient care; understanding nurse burnout in the context of alarm fatigue; ECMO human factors considerations for intensive care patients; AI/ML applications in the ICU; and more- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on human factors and technology in the ICU, offering actionable insights for clinical practice- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews
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Table of Contents
False Crisis Alarms in Cardiopulmonary Monitoring: Identification, Causes, and Clinical ImplicationsThe Impact of Medical Technology Alarms on Critical Care Nurses: Emotional Responses, Occupational Fatigue, and Implications for Well-Being
Understanding Nurse Burnout in the Context of Alarm Fatigue
The Value of a Nurse-Engineer Team in Evaluating Technology for Patient Care
Use of Innovative Technology to Reduce Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries: Journey of One Facility to Achieve Zero Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries in a Critical Care Service Line
Comparative Evaluation of Pressure Distribution of Three Support Surfaces Used for Pressure Injury Prevention during Prolonged Surgeries
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: Consideration of Human Factors in Intensive Care Patients
Intravenous Smart Pumps: A Review of the Safety Implications for the Most Ubiquitous Technology in US Acute Care
Electronic Health Records, Best Practice Advisory Alerts, and the User Interface in the Intensive Care Unit
Revolutionizing Intensive Care Unit Care: A Scoping Review of Multimodal Family Engagement Technologies
Pharmacomarkers: A Novel Computable Biomarker to Represent Dynamic Patient Complexity and Burden of Care in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit to Serve as a Proxy for Nurse Workload
Point-of-Care Sensors and Medical Internet-of-Things Technologies to Manage Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in the Intensive Care Unit
Applying an Agile Science Roadmap to Integrate and Evaluate Ethical Frameworks Throughout the Lifecycle and Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools in the Intensive Care Unit
