If you’ve ever spent any appreciable amount of time in a hospital or other medical care facility, you may have been driven temporarily insane by the never-ending chorus of medical device alarms. I was recently reminded of a few nights I spent in the hospital with my dad a year or so ago. Just when I thought I was drifting off to sleep, one of the infusion pumps delivering his pain medication would go off and wake both of us up. This got me thinking about alarm fatigue, and the drain that so many medical device alarms must have on medical staff, not to mention patients and family.
[fa icon="clock-o"] 4/10/13 7:11 AM [fa icon="user"] Ryan Kasun [fa icon="folder-open'] ergonomics society, alarms, usability, false positives, alarm systems, medical device, iec 60601, human factors
Read More »Coming to your commercial break at the 2014 Super Bowl at Met-Life Stadium - the automated compliance robot!
[fa icon="clock-o"] 2/5/13 7:49 AM [fa icon="user"] Ryan Kasun [fa icon="folder-open'] Medical Devices, visual signal, risk level, alarm systems, safety feature, compliance
Read More »
