Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Changes to pulse oximetry alarm defaults could help hospitals decrease nonactionable alarms. Future studies ...

Alarm fatigue is sensory overload nurses experience when exposed to the nonstop beeping of monitors, pumps and other machines in hospital rooms. The result is not only a desensitization to alarms, but ...

A new study from one of the intensive care unit at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis indicates having fewer medical device alarms may increase nurse response time to such alarms, according ...