In late November, staff in Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono’s cardiovascular telemetry unit took 14 minutes to respond to an alarm that sounded because one patient’s blood oxygen level fell to a ...
While alarms play an important role in notifying healthcare professionals of critical patient needs, having too many notifications can cause alarm fatigue for already overworked nurses and may put ...
LVH-Pocono sued by family of woman who died after emergency alerts were ignored amid ‘alarm fatigue’
The family of a woman who suffered an anoxic brain injury at Lehigh Valley Hospital–Pocono and later died there is suing the hospital, Lehigh Valley Health Network and nurses who worked there for ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — In spring 2023, a patient ...
When you are checked into the hospital you expect to be cared for and monitored. But, a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Health says staff at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono took 14 minutes to ...
WASHINGTON (TND) — A nurse in Australia switched off the sound to a patient's heart monitor alarm so she could FaceTime her family, leading to the elderly man's death, according to a report from ...
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