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Capturing the attentional response to clinical auditory alarms: An ERP study on priority pulses
Clinical auditory alarms are often found in hospital wards and operating rooms. In these environments, regular daily tasks can result in having a multitude of concurrent sounds (from staff and patients, building systems, carts, cleaning devices, and importantly, patient monitoring devices) which eas...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9934403/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36795647 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281680 |
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author | Ribeiro Ferreira, Vasco Pereira, Ana Rita Vieira, Joana Pereira, Frederico Marques, Rui Campos, Guilherme Sampaio, Adriana Crego, Alberto |
author_facet | Ribeiro Ferreira, Vasco Pereira, Ana Rita Vieira, Joana Pereira, Frederico Marques, Rui Campos, Guilherme Sampaio, Adriana Crego, Alberto |
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description | Clinical auditory alarms are often found in hospital wards and operating rooms. In these environments, regular daily tasks can result in having a multitude of concurrent sounds (from staff and patients, building systems, carts, cleaning devices, and importantly, patient monitoring devices) which easily amount to a prevalent cacophony. The negative impact of this soundscape on staff and patients’ health and well-being, as well as in their performance, demand for accordingly designed sound alarms. The recently updated IEC60601-1-8 standard, in guidance for medical equipment auditory alarms, proposed a set of pointers to distinctly convey medium or high levels of priority (urgency). However, conveying priority without compromising other features, such as ease of learnability and detectability, is an ongoing challenge. Electroencephalography, a non-invasive technique for measuring the brain response to a given stimulus, suggests that certain Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) components such as the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and P3a may be the key to uncovering how sounds are processed at the pre-attentional level and how they may capture our attention. In this study, the brain dynamics in response to the priority pulses of the updated IEC60601-1-8 standard was studied via ERPs (MMN and P3a), for a soundscape characterised by the repetition of a sound (generic SpO2 “beep”), usually present in operating and recovery rooms. Additional behavioural experiments assessed the behavioural response to these priority pulses. Results showed that the Medium Priority pulse elicits a larger MMN and P3a peak amplitude when compared to the High Priority pulse. This suggests that, at least for the applied soundscape, the Medium Priority pulse is more easily detected and attended at the neural level. Behavioural data supports this indication, showing significantly shorter reaction times for the Medium Priority pulse. The results pose the possibility that priority pointers of the updated IEC60601-1-8 standard may not be successfully conveying their intended priority levels, which may not only be due to design properties but also to the soundscape in which these clinical alarms are deployed. This study highlights the need for intervention in both hospital soundscapes and auditory alarm design settings. |
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spelling | pubmed-99344032023-02-17 Capturing the attentional response to clinical auditory alarms: An ERP study on priority pulses Ribeiro Ferreira, Vasco Pereira, Ana Rita Vieira, Joana Pereira, Frederico Marques, Rui Campos, Guilherme Sampaio, Adriana Crego, Alberto PLoS One Research Article Clinical auditory alarms are often found in hospital wards and operating rooms. In these environments, regular daily tasks can result in having a multitude of concurrent sounds (from staff and patients, building systems, carts, cleaning devices, and importantly, patient monitoring devices) which easily amount to a prevalent cacophony. The negative impact of this soundscape on staff and patients’ health and well-being, as well as in their performance, demand for accordingly designed sound alarms. The recently updated IEC60601-1-8 standard, in guidance for medical equipment auditory alarms, proposed a set of pointers to distinctly convey medium or high levels of priority (urgency). However, conveying priority without compromising other features, such as ease of learnability and detectability, is an ongoing challenge. Electroencephalography, a non-invasive technique for measuring the brain response to a given stimulus, suggests that certain Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) components such as the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and P3a may be the key to uncovering how sounds are processed at the pre-attentional level and how they may capture our attention. In this study, the brain dynamics in response to the priority pulses of the updated IEC60601-1-8 standard was studied via ERPs (MMN and P3a), for a soundscape characterised by the repetition of a sound (generic SpO2 “beep”), usually present in operating and recovery rooms. Additional behavioural experiments assessed the behavioural response to these priority pulses. Results showed that the Medium Priority pulse elicits a larger MMN and P3a peak amplitude when compared to the High Priority pulse. This suggests that, at least for the applied soundscape, the Medium Priority pulse is more easily detected and attended at the neural level. Behavioural data supports this indication, showing significantly shorter reaction times for the Medium Priority pulse. The results pose the possibility that priority pointers of the updated IEC60601-1-8 standard may not be successfully conveying their intended priority levels, which may not only be due to design properties but also to the soundscape in which these clinical alarms are deployed. This study highlights the need for intervention in both hospital soundscapes and auditory alarm design settings. Public Library of Science 2023-02-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9934403/ /pubmed/36795647 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281680 Text en © 2023 Ribeiro Ferreira et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Ribeiro Ferreira, Vasco Pereira, Ana Rita Vieira, Joana Pereira, Frederico Marques, Rui Campos, Guilherme Sampaio, Adriana Crego, Alberto Capturing the attentional response to clinical auditory alarms: An ERP study on priority pulses |
title | Capturing the attentional response to clinical auditory alarms: An ERP study on priority pulses |
title_full | Capturing the attentional response to clinical auditory alarms: An ERP study on priority pulses |
title_fullStr | Capturing the attentional response to clinical auditory alarms: An ERP study on priority pulses |
title_full_unstemmed | Capturing the attentional response to clinical auditory alarms: An ERP study on priority pulses |
title_short | Capturing the attentional response to clinical auditory alarms: An ERP study on priority pulses |
title_sort | capturing the attentional response to clinical auditory alarms: an erp study on priority pulses |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9934403/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36795647 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281680 |
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