Critical care nurses ’ knowledge of alarm fatigue and practices towards alarms: A multicentre study

Medical devices rely on auditory alarms to alert clinicians to deviations from a predetermined normal status in either equipment or patient. This ensures safeguarding against harm (American College of Clinical Engineering Healthcare Technology Foundation [ACCE HTF], 2007). However, healthcare technology advances have resulted in the exponential growth of medical device auditory alarm sounds (Borowski et al., 2011).
Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Research article Source Type: research