Improving the safety of patient-controlled analgesia infusions with safety interlocks and closed-loop control

Proceedings - 2007 Joint Workshop on High Confidence Medical Devices, Software, and Systems and Medical Device Plug-and-Play Interoperability, HCMDSS/MDPnP 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 149-150

  Cortès, Philippe Antoine ^a   Krishnan, Shankar M ^b   Lee, Insup ^a   Goldman, Julian M ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Medical Device Plug and Play Program

^d PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

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EID: 48349113083     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HCMDSS-MDPnP.2007.8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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