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Sound and Health: Hospitals
99% Invisible
The Power of Sound to Influence Our Health
Noise leads to stress and stress hormones in the body stiffen our blood vessels, which can increase the risk of heart attack. The FDA maintained a database which found that nearly 600 patients had adverse outcomes, mostly death from alarm mismanagement. We'll talk about how we can make the sound design of hospital alarms as sophisticated and precise as the medical devices that are blaring them out after this.
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