Ten years later, alarm fatigue is still a safety concern.

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ten-years-later-alarm-fatigue-still-safety-concern Ten years later, alarm fatigue is still a safety concern. Albanowski K, Burdick KJ, Bonafide CP, et al. AACN Adv Crit Care. 2023;34(3):189-197. Alarm (or alert) fatigue occurs when clinicians ignore alarms, usually due to the majority being invalid or nonactionable, and thus fail to respond or respond more slowly to actionable alerts. The article describes the progress made in reducing nonactionable alarms and making actionable alarms more useful to responding clinicians. Clinical approaches include customization of alert parameters to reduce nonactionable alarms, while engineering solutions include reducing the volume or adjusting the tone of auditory alerts.