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 ...

CHICAGOConstantly 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 ...

Constant cacophony of beeps blamed in a second death at a Boston Hospital. Sept. 23, 2011— -- The death of a 60-year-old patient at UMass Memorial Medical Center raised the alarm on a problem ...

Go into almost any hospital these days and you'll hear a constant stream of beeps and boops. To most people it sounds like medical Muzak. But to doctors and nurses, it's not just sonic wallpaper.

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 ...

Thousands of Canadians die each year from nasty bugs picked up in hospital, at least half of which could likely be prevented by better hand-washing by health providers and other staff. Now Toronto ...