Bart van Rompaey, PhD, is a professor, senior researcher and lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Antwerp in Belgium and lead author of a study on earplug use in the ICU, published in Critical Care.
Alarms buzzing, respirators whooshing, phones ringing, pagers beeping, elevators pinging, staffers talking, patients groaning—there’s a constant cacophony in the intensive…
