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Do Not Disturb: The unseen impacts of alarms and alerts

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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How to Improve the Quality of Medical Alarms

Judy is part of a group working on improving the global standards for medical alarms. The alarms currently in the standard are tonal, so they're like little melodies. When we hear a natural sound, it's because two or more objects or things have interacted. Judy and her team are thinking laterally to design an entirely new kind of alarm.

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