Phillip Zmijewski explores how AI-driven cardiac monitoring, intended to reduce noise, creates a new "trust fatigue" for clinicians. Success depends on blending algorithmic speed with human judgment.

To combat "alarm fatigue," healthcare organizations must develop better programs of alarm management. This is no small task. Monitors alarm for hundreds of reasons, and the nurse is charged with ...

In May, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) issued a Practice Alert for both bedside care providers and nurse leaders to address this “significant threat to patient safety,” noting ...

(Boston) – Boston Medical Center (BMC) successfully reduced audible alarms as a way to combat alarm fatigue and improve patient safety. The hospital, one of two in the country that spearheaded this ...

At Bridgeport Hospital, "talking bed rails" programmed to speak to patients in the geriatric psychiatric unit are helping to reduce the number of alarms that sound when a patient at risk for falling ...

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 ...