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Making Alarms More Musical Can Save Lives
Medical alarms don't have to be louder to be more effective. Scientific American: Beeping alarms in hospitals are a life-or-death matter -- but with so many going off all the time, medical professionals may experience alarm fatigue that impairs care. Researchers now report that changing an alarm's s...
After a typical day at the hospital, "I'd leave with beeping in my ears," says Vanderbilt University Medical Center anesthesiologist Joseph Schlesinger. In 2015 Schutz and Schlesinger began examining musical qualities called timbres that might let softer sounds command attention from busy clinicians. For a recent study detailed in Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, the researchers played participants the same sequences of notes with varying timbres.
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