Every day, the bedside cardiac monitors threw off some 187 audible alerts, an average of 1 alarm beeping by the bedside every 8 minutes. For the entire month, there were 381560 alarms across the 5 ICUs. If you add the inaudible alerts, there were 2.5M unique alarms in 1 month in our ICUs, the overwhelming majority of them false

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