A team of investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center wants to improve patient outcomes in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) settings by silencing audible medical alarms in hospital rooms. Auditory ...

Shpiner is a clinical professor of medicine (pulmonary and critical care) and associate professor of neurosurgery at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. A new survey from the University of ...

Alarm management in critical care environments addresses the challenge posed by the continuous stream of alerts generated by physiologic monitors, infusion pumps and ventilators. While clinical alarms ...

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center developed a device for intensive care patients that eliminates the sound of medical alarms while allowing the patient to hear human voices ...