Title :
Graphic data displays to detect-diagnose-treat critical events during anesthesia
Author :
Westenskow, Dwayne
Author_Institution :
Department of Anesthesiology, Universiry of Utah, USA
Abstract :
Patient safety in the operating room rests on physicians´ ability to make quick and accurate decisions. Visualization tools, particularly interactive graphic displays, increase situation awareness, creating safer systems.
Keywords :
Anesthesia; Blood pressure; Data visualization; Displays; Drugs; Event detection; Graphics; Heart rate; Predictive models; Safety; Anesthesia; Anesthetics; Computer Graphics; Computer Terminals; Data Display; Drug Therapy, Computer-Assisted; Humans; Monitoring, Physiologic; Perioperative Care; User-Computer Interface;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1814-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649333
