´Hands-off´ - Voice activated automated anesthesia recordkeeping and monitoring system (ARMS)

Author

Murray, T.M., Jr. ; Kruse, M.L. ; Battcher, J.A. ; Woods, J.W. ; Edmonds, H.L., Jr. ; Palaheimo, M.P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Lousville Univ., KY, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

1-4 April 1990

Firstpage

822

Abstract

The development of an inexpensive pilot anesthesia recordkeeping and monitoring system (ARMS) for use during surgery is described. This IBM-PC-based system permits automated acquisition and storage of physiologic data obtained continuously from anesthetized patients during surgery. Additionally, graphic displays have been developed to trend changes in relevant physiologic variables. Operation of this automated recordkeeping system is under voice control of the anesthesiologist. Voice control also permits accurately timed annotation of the automated anesthesia record even when the user is otherwise occupied. Speech synthesis offers operating instructions to the user, verifies the accuracy of voice entries and provides discrete, unambiguous warning messages.<>

Keywords

computerised monitoring; medical computing; microcomputer applications; patient monitoring; speech recognition; surgery; IBM-PC-based system; anesthesia recordkeeping and monitoring system; automated recordkeeping system; data acquisition; data storage; graphic displays; operating instructions; physiologic data; speech recognition; speech synthesis; surgery; voice activated system; voice control; warning messages; Anesthesia; Arm; Automatic control; Biomedical monitoring; Control systems; Displays; Graphics; Patient monitoring; Storage automation; Surgery;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Southeastcon '90. Proceedings., IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA, USA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECON.1990.117932

Filename

117932