Ophir Ronen, CEO of CalmWave is looking to solve the problem of alarm fatigue in the ICU, by building predictive models. An estimated 771 alarms per bed, per day were measured at peak at John Hopkins ...

The hospital is flush with alarms. One study done at The John Hopkins Hospital identified 59,000 alarm conditions during a 12-day period—or a staggering 350 alarms per patient per day. With all these ...

The 2010 death of a patient at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester attributed in part to a delayed response to device alarms signaling the patient’s fast heart rate and breathing problems are ...

In late November, staff in Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono’s cardiovascular telemetry unit took 14 minutes to respond to an alarm that sounded because one patient’s blood oxygen level fell to a ...

A Florida hospital surgical intensive care unit (SICU) improved clinical alarm management practices and reduced nurses' self-reported alarm fatigue, according to a study published in Critical Care ...

Hospital intensive care units are notoriously noisy, with medical equipment emitting alarms, beeps, and other alerts designed to grab the attention of overextended healthcare workers. That constant ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC) today announced the publication of data from a two-phase pilot study conducted with Cleveland Clinic in the peer-reviewed Journal of Clinical ...

In 2010, a patient death at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester involved a delayed response to alarms signaling the patient’s fast heart rate and breathing problems, according to a Boston Globe ...

Walk into a hospital intensive-care unit and hear the din. The sheer number—several hundred alarms per patient per day—can cause alarm fatigue. Nurses and other workers, overwhelmed or desensitized by ...

FDA 510(k) clearance of latest Philips IntelliVue patient monitor software helps drive alarm management strategies toward a more peaceful, healing environment for patients and caregivers Amsterdam, ...