Alarms in the operating room

Alarms in the operating room.

Historically anaesthetists employed only their senses to monitor patients during the conduct of anaesthesia. Recent developments have made the continuous watching of patient, devices, and every instrumental display virtually impossible. Hearing is an essential communication channel between instrument and user. The human auditory system responds most to the timing of sound stimuli so that a tran...

Urgency Analysis of Audible Alarms in The Operating Room

Recent studies by researchers, governmental agencies, and safety organizations have recognized a deficiency in the performance of medically related audible alarms [1–4]. In the clinical setting, care providers can suffer from alarm fatigue, a condition in which audible alarms in an operating room are perceived as a nuisance. In this study, we explore the auditory features associated with curren...

Patient monitoring alarms in the ICU and in the operating room

Perceived urgency and the anaesthetist: responses to common operating room monitor alarms.

Increasing numbers and varieties of electronic monitors are used in hospital operating rooms. Many of these are equipped with auditory alarms which are loud, insistent, or irritating, and thus are frequently disabled by the anaesthetist. This study was planned to evaluate two components of auditory alarm design which may influence the usefulness of the alarm: the perceived urgency of the audito...

Precautions in the Operating Room during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Corona is a respiratory virus that can cause death as well as many complications in recovering patients. Preventive and control measures to protect people who are exposed to the corona virus and contract it depend on the type of work performed and the risk of exposure to infected people and contamination of the workplace. Due to the non-necessity of performing non-emergency surgeries and taking...