Cardiopulmonary monitors and clinically significant events in critically ill children

Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue SPRING, 2011, Pages 38-45

  Talley, Linda B ^a   Hooper, Jeffrey ^b   Jacobs, Brian ^b   Guzzetta, Cathie ^b   McCarter, Robert ^c   Sill, Anne ^c   Sherry, Cain ^b   Wilson, Sally L ^b  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Seattle Children's Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM PARAMETERS; ALARM RATE; CLINICAL CONDITIONS; CRITICAL INFORMATION; DEFAULT SETTING; EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM; FALSE ALARM RATE; NEGATIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; PROPER DESIGN; SAFETY ISSUES;

ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE; SPECTROMETRY;

ALARM SYSTEMS;

AGITATION; APNEA; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY MONITOR; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; CHILD; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICALLY SIGNIFICANT EVENT; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EXTUBATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; PAIN; PATHOLOGICAL CRYING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VOMITING; ALARM MONITOR; CRITICAL ILLNESS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; OXIMETRY; STANDARD;

CHILD; CLINICAL ALARMS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OXIMETRY;

EID: 80052613265     PISSN: 08998205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2345/0899-8205-45.s1.38     Document Type: Article

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