ASTM STP 1152 Operating Room and Intensive Care Alarms and Information Transfer
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Headley-Whyte, J
ASTM Committee F-29 on Anesthetic and Respiratory Equipment and ISO Committee TC 121 on Anesthetic and Respiratory Equipment sponsored the symposium Operating Room and Intensive Care Alarms and Information Transfer. This STP contains papers presented at the symposium held February, 1991.
Specific topics covered by the papers in this publication include:
- operating room alarms
- anesthesia monitor alarms
- audible alarms
- alarm standards
- audible warning signals
- auditory loading
- intensive care unit (ICU)
- monitoring
- nursing staff response
- intensive care medicine
- patient care managers (PCM)
- PCM applications architecture (PCMAA)
- computer aided ventilator (CAV)
- alarm function
- anesthesiology
- ergonomics
- information transfer
- operating room
- patient monitoring-visual monitors
- artificial intelligence in medicine
- knowledge representation in ICUs
- medical expert systems
- knowledge engineering
- surgical information systems
Purchase this STP if you are looking for a reference to provide practical, experience-based information regarding hospital information system issues.