“Health care workers are exposed to an excessive number of alarms that overload their senses, which leads to alarm desensitization. It is estimated that between 80% and 99% of alarms in the clinical areas are false As health care workers become increasingly desensitized to alarms, alarm response rates decrease or diminish all together. Poor alarm response rates result in important alarms being overlooked or ignored because the important alarms are
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