BACKGROUND: Recent reports by The Joint Commission as well as the Anesthesia Patient
Safety Foundation have indicated that medical audible alarm effectiveness needs to be …

Every clinician is well aware of the problems with audible alarms: False alarms, loud alarms,
difficulty determining what is alarming, and inability to quiet an alarm all create distractions …

Alarms in the operating room remain a major source of annoyance and confusion. Nearly all
alarms result from a transgression of certain alarm limits. We surveyed manufacturers at a …

It is encouraging to see Atyeo and Sanderson's article [1] demonstrating that alarm sounds
intended to support a previous version of IEC 60601-1-8 (ISO 9703-2), developed almost 30 …

The ergonomic performance of an integrated set of 17 audible alarm sounds, divided into
low, medium and high priority classes (Block et al 2000 J. Clin. Monit. Comput. 16 541–6) …

Alarms in the operating room remain a major source of annoyance and confusion. A
previous study by Kestin et al. utilized a specific combination of distinct, separate monitors in …

Background Current standard audible medical alarms are difficult to learn and distinguish
from one another. Auditory icons represent a new type of alarm that has been shown to be …

Objectives This paper summarizes much of the research that is applicable to the design of
auditory alarms in a medical context. It also summarizes research that demonstrates that …

This paper surveys current work on the design of alarms for anesthesia environments and
notes some of the problems arising from the need to interpret alarms in context. Anesthetists' …

T equipment, that from the outside appearance look the same, could have very different
alarm settings, limits and modes of operation, of which the casual or even every day …