News
10 Sep 2020
‘The boy who cried wolf’, how can we solve alarm fatigue on ICU?
In Intensive Care environments, alarms function as 'attention redirection systems'; they let a nurse or doctor know that a patient might be in need of urgent or additional care. In practice, however, there are simply too much alarms. That is when ‘the boy who cried wolf’-effect comes into action: alarms are not taken as seriously as they should.
