Morganstern M A, Karpel S K
Respir Care. 1986 May;31(5):395-401.
The problem of patients in isolation becoming disconnected from their ventilator systems is a serious one, as the closed doors of an isolation room usually prevent hospital personnel outside the room from hearing or seeing standard ventilator alarms To overcome this potentially life-threatening problem, we modified a standard external low-pressure alarm to accept a simple, inexpensively built remote warning system. In use on 23 patients in our intensive care unit over a 7-month period, this system proved to be a reliable and cost-effective means of warning hospital personnel of possibly life-threatening ventilator disconnects on isolated patients.
隔离病房中的患者与呼吸机系统断开连接是一个严重问题，因为隔离病房的紧闭房门通常会使病房外的医院工作人员无法听到或看到标准呼吸机警报。为克服这一潜在的危及生命的问题，我们对标准外部低压警报器进行了改进，使其能够接入一个简单且造价低廉的远程警报系统。在我们重症监护病房的23名患者身上使用了7个月，该系统被证明是一种可靠且具成本效益的手段，可向医院工作人员警示隔离患者可能出现的危及生命的呼吸机断开连接情况。
