Poor prognosis for existing monitors in the intensive care unit

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 614-619

  Tsien, Christine L ^a   Fackler, James C ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

critical care; critical events; electrocardiography; equipment design; false alarms; intelligent alarms; intensive care unit; monitoring; physiologic; positive predictive value; pulse oximetry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE OXIMETRY;

EID: 0030999897     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199704000-00010     Document Type: Article

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