A second patient died in 2010 at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester partly due to “alarm fatigure,” a phenomenon that occurs when nurses tune out patients’ monitoring system alarms due to overexposure, according to a Boston Globe report.
Read the full report in Becker’s ASC Review on the patient death at UMass Memorial Medical Center.
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