Essays about: "machine-alerted monitoring systems"

Found 1 essay containing the words machine-alerted monitoring systems.

  1. 1. "I want to treat the patient, not the alarm": User image mismatch in Anesthesia alarm design.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Brandteknik; Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Karen Elise Raymer; [2012]
    Keywords : cognitive systems engineering; joint cognitive activity; machine-alerted monitoring systems; anesthesia alarms; two-staged signal detection.; FLMU06; Technology and Engineering; Medicine and Health Sciences;

    Abstract : Although the development of physiologic monitors has improved the safety of patients undergoing anesthesia, a growing body of literature suggests that alarms function sub-optimally in supporting the human operator. A principle of cognitive systems engineering is that there is an image of the user “built in” to the design of any machine used in a joint cognitive (man-machine) system. READ MORE