The average hospital patient can generate dozens of alarms every day. It’s no surprise that clinicians navigating healthcare environments with hundreds of patients can quickly become accustomed to a ...

In April 2013, The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert for “alarm fatigue” among hospital staff — an overabundance of information transmitted by medical devices that can compromise patient ...

A false alarm for a person with a weapon or hostage situation went off at Christ Hospital Tuesday afternoon.

The hospital’s I.T. server room is covered by an aspirating system. This air sampling system has its own dedicated E3 Series panel tying it to the overall fire alarm network. Another priority was to ...

Today’s hospitals and specialized care facilities integrate a slew of building technologies to ensure all systems function as intended to provide state-of-the-art care for patients. Many of these ...

Constantly beeping alarms from devices that monitor the vital signs of the critically ill have “desensitized” hospital workers who sometimes ignore the noise, leading to at least two dozen deaths a ...

The fire alarm is blaring in my ears in the ICU. I make eye contact with my resident, who has a blank stare on her face. It seems as if we are both saying, "I don't see or smell any fire." I return my ...