CalmWave uses medical data to understand patient danger signs and will soon spot when they’re on the road to recovery. Hospital intensive care units are notoriously noisy, with medical equipment ...
The failure of hospital caregivers to respond to medical alerts is often attributed to “alarm fatigue” — the idea that nurses or doctors can become desensitized to the nonstop cacophony of beeps that ...
In April 2013, The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert for “alarm fatigue” among hospital staff — an overabundance of information transmitted by medical devices that can compromise patient ...