The wolf is crying in the operating room: Patient monitor and anesthesia workstation alarming patterns during cardiac surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 78-83

  Schmid, Felix ^a   Goepfert, Matthias S ^a   Kuhnt, Daniela ^b   Eichhorn, Volker ^a   Diedrichs, Stefan ^a   Reichenspurner, Hermann ^a   Goetz, Alwin E ^a   Reuter, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b ANHALT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALARM MONITOR; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL PATIENT;

EID: 78650927215     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181fcc504     Document Type: Article

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