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Patients continually put in danger due to alarm fatigue
Patient monitor alarms alert healthcare professionals that something is wrong. Yet, as we've reported many times before, the relentless beeps can overwhelm or desensitize hospital staff, sometimes
Patient's death brings focus to recurring problems with critical alarms
The death of a patient at Massachusetts General Hospital last month, after a heart monitor was turned off, has sparked an internal investigation by the hospital, and brings to light a growing
