The average hospital patient can generate dozens of alarms every day. It’s no surprise that clinicians navigating healthcare environments with hundreds of patients can quickly become accustomed to a ...

July 16, 2012 — A new study has quantified how disruptive typical hospital sounds are to the sleep of patients, and shows, perhaps not surprisingly, that electronic sounds that are intentionally ...

Hospital alarms are currently ranked as the "top medical technology hazard" within the United States. On average, there are about 480,000 patients in hospitals — each generating about 135 clinical ...

Go into almost any hospital these days and you'll hear a constant stream of beeps and boops. To most people it sounds like medical Muzak. But to doctors and nurses, it's not just sonic wallpaper.

Healthcare workers may fail to respond to medical alarms because they have trouble hearing them — the result of a phenomenon called simultaneous masking, according to a study published in Human ...