Key result
Excessive medical device alarms remain a leading hospital hazard by overwhelming and desensitizing health workers.
Why the study?
Excessive and misleading medical device alarms remain a leading technological hazard in hospitals, overwhelming and desensitizing health workers.
Excessive medical device alarms create alarm fatigue, a leading technological hazard that overwhelms and desensitizes health workers.
Persistent alarm fatigue threatens patient safety; leaves open validated interventions to reduce clinician desensitization.
Medical device alarms are designed to save lives, but excessive and misleading alerts remain a leading technological hazard in hospitals. Clinical devices sound hundreds of alarms per patient per day, creating a cacophony that can overwhelm, distract and desensitize health workers, the US Emergency
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Kierra Jones (2014) studied this question. Excessive medical device alarms, sounding hundreds of times per patient daily, remain a leading technological hazard in hospitals by overwhelming and desensitizing health workers.
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