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Patients Tormented by the Sound of Hospital Alarms

  • December 11, 2019

Think of a few sounds that would make you cringe, if you had to hear them over and over and over again. Nails on a chalkboard? Balloons popping? What about the constant noise of an alarm? Every day in hospitals across the U.S., tens of thousands of alarms go off — beeping, buzzing and shrieking around patients. While the alarms are intended to alert medical staff when there’s a problem, the constant noise creates stress and unrest for patients trying to heal. According to...