Alarming tones: the unexplored phenomenon of auditory roughness

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¹ Department of Anaesthesia, Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust, London, UK. Electronic address: naomi.watson5@nhs.net.
² Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ Department of Critical Care, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Critical Care, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK; Division of Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine and Intensive Care, Imperial College London, London, UK.

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Naomi Watson et al. Br J Anaesth. 2023 Oct.

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. 2023 Oct;131(4):e103-e106.

doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2023.05.010. Epub 2023 Jun 15.

¹ Department of Anaesthesia, Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust, London, UK. Electronic address: naomi.watson5@nhs.net.
² Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ Department of Critical Care, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Critical Care, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK; Division of Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine and Intensive Care, Imperial College London, London, UK.

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Keywords: alarms; auditory roughness; noise; patient safety; tritone.

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