Determining Alarm Fatigue Among Nurses in Paediatric and Adult Intensive Care Units: A Cross-Sectional Study

Abstract

Florence Nightingale defined the concept of noise as a cruel situation that can harm both sick and healthy people. 1 Due to the high number of technical devices in intensive care units (ICUs), the level of noise generated by such devices is inevitably high. Noise resulting from the operating and alarms of monitors, infusion and feeding pumps, and mechanical ventilators, which occupy a vital place in patient