CHICAGO — Constantly beeping alarms from devices that monitor the vital signs of the critically ill have "desensitized" hospital workers who sometimes ignore the noise, leading to at least two dozen ...
In hospitals, alarms on patient-monitoring devices create a cacophony of noise day and night—beeping, pinging and ringing so often that doctors and nurses ignore them, turn them off or just stop ...
Announcements blare from overhead speakers. Electronic devices beep. Heating and cooling systems rumble. Employees and visitors speak loudly. This sound snapshot, researchers say, comes not from a ...
UPS delivered a seemingly harmless, shoebox-size package about 10:30 a.m. yesterday to the rehabilitation department at Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park. But a hospital employee carrying ...
WASHINGTON — As deals struck by health care behemoths go, this was one of the stranger ones. On one side, you had a medical device giant, with a phalanx of PR professionals carefully guarding the ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Warning lights hover over the snoozing patients in Riley Hospital for Children's neonatal intensive care unit, ready to flash whenever sound levels creep beyond normal conversation ...
In hospitals, alarms on patient-monitoring devices create a cacophony of noise day and night—beeping, pinging and ringing so often that doctors and nurses ignore them, turn them off or just stop ...
Acoustical engineers say hospital noise levels have grown steadily over the past five decades, stressing patients and staff, raising the risk of medical errors and hindering efforts to modernize ...
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