ArticleBritish journal of anaesthesia2025
The future of sound in patient monitoring: a call to action to embrace the evidence and move forward.
Article in British journal of anaesthesia, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Anesthesia Providers' Perspectives on the Redesigned Philips Acoustic Alarm System: Qualitative Pre- and Postimplementation Study.JMIR human factors · 2026Article
- EEG features associated with Alzheimer's disease and Frontotemporal dementia are not reflected by processed indices used in anesthesia monitoring.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2025Article
- Mechanism, contributing factors, and coping strategies of alarm fatigue in intensive care nursing: a qualitative study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Patient monitoring systems have relied on beeping alarm sounds for the past 70 years, yet evidence suggests that these conventional tones limit alarm effectiveness, informativeness, and user situation awareness. More advanced alarm modalities, such as auditory icons and voice alerts, offer more intuitive approaches, and were found to improve alarm detection and reduce caregiver workload. Made possible by adoptions of international standards, and supported by evidence, the future of patient monitoring alarm sounds might incorporate conventional alarm tones with auditory icons, voice alerts, and advanced visualisations to better support caregivers and reduce alarm fatigue in patients and caregivers. Sound examples for advanced alarm modalities, comparisons with conventional alarm sounds, and alarm sound examples from aviation are provided in an online supplementary video.
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