Title :
Distribution of principal sources of invalid physiologic data
Author :
Aukburg, S.J. ; Matsiras, P.V. ; Garfunkel, D. ; Carson, E.R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Anesthesia, Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
Abstract :
Data from 130 consecutive patients undergoing general anesthesia in one of the day surgery operating rooms of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania were collected and filed for subsequent evaluation. The data indicate that a validation process could eliminate a substantial portion of both cautions and alarms. It was possible to validate 75% of all warnings and to invalidate 12%. This translates to a potential reduction from one audible alarm every 4 min to one every 16 min
Keywords :
patient monitoring; physiology; 16 min; 4 min; University of Pennsylvania; alarms; cautions; data sources distribution; day surgery operating rooms; general anesthesia; invalid physiologic data; patients; validation process; Anesthesia; Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Computerized monitoring; Condition monitoring; Electrocardiography; Hospitals; Mass spectroscopy; Surgery; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1989.96448
