Using the blood pressure waveform to reduce critical false ECG alarms

Computers in Cardiology

Volumn 33, Issue , 2006, Pages 829-832

  Clifford, Gari D ^a,b   Aboukhalil, A ^a   Sun, J X ^a   Zong, W ^a   Janz, B A ^a   Moody, G B ^a   Mark, R G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOLOGY; ERRORS; HEALTH; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; STANDARDS;

ARTERIAL BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE WAVEFORM; FALSE ALARM RATES; FALSE ALARMS; INDEPENDENT SIGNALS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (ICU); MONITORING SYSTEMS; MULTI PARAMETERS; PHYSIONET; RESPONSE TIMES; ROBUST STRATEGY; SINGLE CHANNEL; WAVEFORM DATA;

ALARM SYSTEMS;

EID: 38049074713     PISSN: 02766574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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