Auditory displays in anesthesiology

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 788-795

  Sanderson, Penelope M ^a,b,c   Liu, David ^b   Jenkins, Simon A ^d,e  

^a Schools of Psychology and Medicine   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Auditory alarms; Auditory displays; Earcons; Patient monitoring; Sonification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANESTHESIOLOGY; AUDITORY DISPLAY; AWARENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEVICE; DISPLAY SYSTEM; EARCON; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEARING; HUMAN; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; ULTRASOUND; WELLBEING;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL ALARMS; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; DATA DISPLAY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; SOUND;

EID: 70449476734     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e3283326a2f     Document Type: Review

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