I basically lived in a hospital room for the past week, though I’m not sick. The machine that pumps and monitors your iv fluids constantly emits screaming alarm

I basically lived in a hospital room for the past week, though I’m not sick. The machine that pumps and monitors your iv fluids constantly emits screaming alarm tones. An alarm can be triggered if you bend your arm the wrong way, obstructing the iv. But most often the alarm is triggered because of air in the line. You can silence the alarm. But if a patient is not accompanied by someone, they will probably have to sit there with the alarm going off for 10 to 20 minutes at a time before the nurse finally arrives and deactivates it. That happened to us once and I never left again after that. And it’s true — nurses barge into the room quite unceremoniously, wake you up, and perform tests on you in the middle of the night. It’s very annoying and leaves everyone except the nurses very hagard in the morning.