DOI: 10.14264/uql.2015.313
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A human factors evaluation of auditory displays in medical electrical equipment

Abstract: Auditory alarms have, for the most part, gone unchanged in human technological developmental history. This is largely due to their success and simplicity. As they take advantage of the primitive human principle of fight or flight, they have been found to be a significant attractor of attention, are generally easy to understand, omi-directional, and to the point.Medical staff, for instance, use sounds in many aspects of patient monitoring-the steady beeping of the pulse oximeter, or insistent alarms from equipm… Show more

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