Auditory Sequences Presented with Spearcons Support Better Multiple Patient Monitoring than Single-Patient Alarms: A Preclinical Simulation

Need for a new paradigm in the design of alarms for patient monitors and medical devices

(2021) Craig S. Webster et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA

Applying Human Factors Engineering to Address the Telemetry Alarm Problem in a Large Medical Center

(2021) Emily S. Patterson et al.   HUMAN FACTORS

Nurses’ use of auditory alarms and alerts in high dependency units: A field study

(2021) Marie-Lys F.A. Deschamps et al.   APPLIED ERGONOMICS

Discriminating between simultaneous audible alarms is easier with auditory icons

(2021) Judy Reed Edworthy et al.   APPLIED ERGONOMICS

Voice alerting as a medical alarm modality for next-generation patient monitoring: a randomised international multicentre trial

(2021) Tadzio R. Roche et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA

Organizing Audible Alarm Sounds in the Hospital: A Card-Sorting Study

(2020) Melanie C. Wright et al.   IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems

Recommendation of New Medical Alarms Based on Audibility, Identifiability, and Detectability in a Randomized, Simulation-Based Study

(2019) Christopher Bennett et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

The impact of concurrent linguistic tasks on participants’ identification of spearcons

(2019) Thomas Davidson et al.   APPLIED ERGONOMICS

Using timbre to improve performance of larger auditory alarm sets

(2019) Michael F. Rayo et al.   ERGONOMICS

Auditory Icon Alarms Are More Accurately and Quickly Identified than Current Standard Melodic Alarms in a Simulated Clinical Setting

(2018) Richard R. McNeer et al.   ANESTHESIOLOGY

Spearcon Sequences for Monitoring Multiple Patients: Laboratory Investigation Comparing Two Auditory Display Designs

(2018) Simon Y. W. Li et al.   HUMAN FACTORS

Spearcons for Patient Monitoring: Laboratory Investigation Comparing Earcons and Spearcons

(2017) Simon Y. W. Li et al.   HUMAN FACTORS

The Recognizability and Localizability of Auditory Alarms: Setting Global Medical Device Standards

(2017) Judy Edworthy et al.   HUMAN FACTORS

Using a Sequence of Earcons to Monitor Multiple Simulated Patients

(2016) Anna Hickling et al.   HUMAN FACTORS

Comparison of the identification and ease of use of two alarm sound sets by critical and acute care nurses with little or no music training: a laboratory study

(2015) J. Atyeo et al.   ANAESTHESIA

Alarm system management: evidence-based guidance encouraging direct measurement of informativeness to improve alarm response: Table 1

(2015) Michael F Rayo et al.   BMJ Quality & Safety

A Novel Sonification Strategy for Auditory Display of Heart Rate and Oxygen Saturation Changes in Clinical Settings

(2012) Petr Janata et al.   HUMAN FACTORS

Spearcons (Speech-Based Earcons) Improve Navigation Performance in Advanced Auditory Menus

(2012) Bruce N. Walker et al.   HUMAN FACTORS

Monitor Alarm Fatigue: Standardizing Use of Physiological Monitors and Decreasing Nuisance Alarms

(2010) K. C. Graham et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CRITICAL CARE

Are Melodic Medical Equipment Alarms Easily Learned?

(2009) Alexandra N. Wee et al.   ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA