In our last post, we began discussing the problems of alarm fatigue and auditory masking, the difference being that auditory masking makes it extremely difficult if not impossible for health care providers to distinguish different types of alarms, regardless of whether they are experiencing alarm fatigue.
New research could help identify cases of auditory masking, P.1
Health care professionals rely on a great deal of specialized equipment to do their jobs. This equipment needs to not only be in working order for providers to do their jobs correctly, but providers must also know how to properly use the equipment. One of the tools health care professionals routinely use in a variety of care environments is medical alarms, or devices equipped with medical alarms.
