Medical device alarms

Biomedizinische Technik

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 73-83

  Borowski, Matthias ^a   Görges, Matthias ^b   Fried, Roland ^a   Such, Olaf ^c   Wrede, Christian ^d   Imhoff, Michael ^e  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^d HELIOS KLINIKUM BERLIN BUCH   (Germany)

^e RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

alarm systems; equipment design; intensive care unit; noise prevention and control; physiologic monitoring; safety management

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DATABASE; CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE; CURRENT SITUATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FALSE POSITIVE; HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL DEVICES; NOISE PREVENTION AND CONTROL; OPERATOR ERROR; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SIGNAL QUALITY; USABILITY PROBLEMS; WORKGROUPS;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MEDICINE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PHYSIOLOGY; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

ALARM SYSTEMS;

ALARM MONITOR; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTENSIVE CARE; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; REVIEW;

CLINICAL ALARMS; CRITICAL CARE; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79953893879     PISSN: 00135585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BMT.2011.005     Document Type: Review

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