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 ...

Turns out, you’re not the only one who gets alarm fatigue when you’re in a hospital. Hospital workers hear up to 1,000 alarms per shift, but only 15 percent of those in a critical care unit are ...

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 ...