{"id":288627,"date":"2017-03-16T13:33:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T17:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/03\/170316133359.htm"},"modified":"2017-03-16T13:33:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T17:33:59","slug":"using-mp3-like-code-engineers-spot-hospital-alarm-masking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=288627","title":{"rendered":"Using MP3-like code, engineers spot hospital alarm &#8216;masking&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The failure of hospital caregivers to respond to medical alerts is often attributed to \u201calarm fatigue.\u201d Another possible explanation: alarms sounding simultaneously can blend together, making one or more of them inaudible. The phenomenon, known as masking, makes it difficult to differentiate alarms, including those that signal life-threatening emergencies. A research team is developing a computer-based tool \u2014 using the same principles as MP3 audio files \u2014 to identify these auditory blind spots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The failure of hospital caregivers to respond to medical alerts is often attributed to &ldquo;alarm fatigue.&rdquo; Another possible explanation: alarms sounding simultaneously can blend together, making one or more of them inaudible. The phenomenon, known as masking, makes it difficult to differentiate alarms, including those that signal life-threatening emergencies. A research team is developing a computer-based tool &mdash; using the same principles as MP3 audio files &mdash; to identify these auditory blind spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288628,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288627\/revisions\/288628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}