A remote alarm (200B; 520) for use with a wearable defibrillator , comprising: an RF transceiver to receive an RF communication from the wearable defibrillator ; a processor , electrically coupled to the RF transceiver to process the communication and to identify a message based upon a content of the communication; an audio circuit , electrically coupled to the processor, to convert the message to an audio signal; an audio output device , electrically coupled to the audio circuit , to audibly reproduce the message; a memory electrically coupled to the processor ; and a user interface , electrically coupled to the processor; wherein the remote alarm is configured to communicate information of the message to a patient in different ways depending on a type of information being communicated by said message, the type of information including urgent-type and important-type, based on one or both of default settings or patient-inputted settings of the remote alarm, wherein if the information of the message is of the urgent-type the remote alarm is configured to immediately communicate the corresponding audio signal via the audio output device and wherein the message being of urgent-type includes at least a warning message of imminent shock to be delivered by the wearable defibrillator based upon an arrhythmia detected by the wearable defibrillator, and if the information of the message is of important-type, the remote alarm is configured to store that information in a memory for retrieval of that information by the patient and set an indicator of the user interface to prompt the patient to interface with the remote alarm and retrieve that information, wherein the information of the message that is of important-type at least includes information that corresponds to a detected arrhythmia that abated before a warning message of imminent shock was to be delivered. an RF transceiver to receive an RF communication from the wearable defibrillator ; a processor , electrically coupled to the RF transceiver to process the communication and to identify a message based upon a content of the communication; an audio circuit , electrically coupled to the processor, to convert the message to an audio signal; an audio output device , electrically coupled to the audio circuit , to audibly reproduce the message; a memory electrically coupled to the processor ; and a user interface , electrically coupled to the processor; wherein the remote alarm is configured to communicate information of the message to a patient in different ways depending on a type of information being communicated by said message, the type of information including urgent-type and important-type, based on one or both of default settings or patient-inputted settings of the remote alarm, wherein if the information of the message is of the urgent-type the remote alarm is configured to immediately communicate the corresponding audio signal via the audio output device and wherein the message being of urgent-type includes at least a warning message of imminent shock to be delivered by the wearable defibrillator based upon an arrhythmia detected by the wearable defibrillator, and if the information of the message is of important-type, the remote alarm is configured to store that information in a memory for retrieval of that information by the patient and set an indicator of the user interface to prompt the patient to interface with the remote alarm and retrieve that information, wherein the information of the message that is of important-type at least includes information that corresponds to a detected arrhythmia that abated before a warning message of imminent shock was to be delivered. <EOS>