Patient monitoring alarms in the ICU and in the operating room

Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Schmid, Felix ^a   Goepfert, Matthias S ^a   Reuter, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM MONITOR; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAPNOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FUZZY LOGIC; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL STAFF; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS CONTROL; PULSE OXIMETRY; REVIEW; STANDARD; TEMPERATURE; TIME; DEVICE FAILURE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLINICAL ALARMS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OPERATING ROOMS;

EID: 84875371266     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc12525     Document Type: Review

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