Comment by rpcastagna
7 years ago
If it makes you feel better:
Hospitals of reasonable size typically have an on-site clinical engineering team that handles those kinds of situations. Important (that is, capital expense category) hospital equipment will typically emit all kinds of warnings and alarms way before anything's actually a problem, because everyone would rather rely on the on-site engineering spending a little extra time silencing false positives then leave anything to chance.
All the nursing journals are full of articles about combating “alarm fatigue”. After 1 google query and 2 minutes of link-clicking:
> “An analysis of alarms at The John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, revealed a total of more than 59 000 alarm conditions over a 12-day period-or 350 alarms per patient per day.1,2”
https://www.nursingcenter.com/journalarticle?Article_ID=1617...
Alarms are mostly ignored or turned off.
If you spend any time in an emergency room or a hospital, you'll soon realize that there's almost always an alarm going off somewhere, usually more than one and usually for long periods of time.
> Hospitals of reasonable size typically have an on-site clinical engineering team that handles those kinds of situations.
Not for superconducting magnets they don’t. They may be involved with MR scanners somewhere, but that would be extremely uncommon.