Switching the sound of a hospital beep to a more “musical” one can improve patient care — and avoid “alarm fatigue” Getty The beeping alarms used in hospitals have been “widely criticized” for going ...

The Joint Commission has issued a warning to providers about the dangers of alarm fatigue, which can occur when clinicians become desensitized to the incessant beeping of medical device alarms. In a ...

Hospitals are always buzzing with overlapping sounds—the beeping of the heart monitor, the sharp alert of an IV pump finishing, and the low hum of the ventilation. This creates a dissonant symphony of ...

From an evolutionary view, becoming alarmed over dangerous situations is adaptive. Our fight-or-flee response has been honed over the millennium. Now, our prompt and focused attention on alarming ...

The 2010 death of a patient at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester attributed in part to a delayed response to device alarms signaling the patient’s fast heart rate and breathing problems are ...