Real-time anaesthesia diagnosis display system with multi-modal alarms

ABSTRACT

Fatal errors during anaesthesia administration are usually preventable human mistakes. It is difficult for anaesthetists to keep monitoring every physiological change and to detect clinically critical events during anaesthesia. Intelligent patient monitoring systems to assist anaesthetists are under investigation. These systems require a distinctive and unique way of conveying alerts and diagnostic information to the anaesthetist in busy and noisy operating theatres. We present here a functional prototype of a multi-modal (audio & visual) alarm system, MMAS.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.m Miscellaneous

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors, Reliability

Keywords:
anaesthesia diagnosis system, auditory alarm, computerised diagnosis, multimodal alarm, speech alarm, visualisation