A new design system attempts to solve this intractable problem through music. [Image: Man Made Music] “Right now, alarms are only designed to do two things: to scream for attention, which stresses ...
Hospital sounds disrupt patients’ sleep, according to a study in Annals of Internal Medicine. Researchers conducted a three-day polysomnographic study in a sound-attenuated sleep laboratory with 12 ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Certain hospital sounds, such as electronic alarms, telephones and conversations, can wake people up even at relatively low levels, according to a new study. The results ...
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) Being a patient at a hospital brings stress, on top of already being unwell. People are always bustling about, nurses and doctors are administering care at all hours of the day ...
Announcements blare from overhead speakers. Electronic devices beep. Heating and cooling systems rumble. Employees and visitors speak loudly. This sound snapshot, researchers say, comes not from a ...
Michele Norris speaks with Boston Globe reporter Liz Kowalczyk about her investigative series on how hospital staff can tune out or not react with urgency to patient alarms. When you visit a hospital, ...
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