In ERs across the United States there is the regular din of beeping alarms going off from machines connected to patients. But a new study found only a tiny fraction of the alarms signals a condition important enough to require a change in the patient’s care. That creates a problem: the nearly constant din tends to desensitize hospital staff to the sounds, dubbed “alarm fatigue,” which can result in real emergencies being missed, researchers warn in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine.

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