When Is a Defibrillator Not a Defibrillator? When It's Like a Clock Radio ... . The Challenge of Usability and Patient Safety in the Real World

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 433-435

  Karsh, Ben Tzion ^a   Scanlon, Matthew ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL;

DEFIBRILLATORS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 34548581007     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.06.481     Document Type: Editorial

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