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The wolf is crying in the operating room: patient monitor and anesthesia workstation alarming patterns during cardiac surgery.

Schmid F, Goepfert MS, Kuhnt D, et al. The wolf is crying in the operating room: patient monitor and anesthesia workstation alarming patterns during cardiac surgery. Anesth Analg. 2011;112(1):78-83. doi:10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181fcc504.

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June 8, 2011
Schmid F, Goepfert MS, Kuhnt D, et al. Anesth Analg. 2011;112(1):78-83.
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Anesthesia equipment alarms went off approximately once per minute during cardiac surgical procedures; however, 80% of these alarms had no clinical consequences. The difficulty of calibrating alarm systems was discussed in an AHRQ WebM&M interview with human factors engineering expert Donald Norman, PhD.

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Schmid F, Goepfert MS, Kuhnt D, et al. The wolf is crying in the operating room: patient monitor and anesthesia workstation alarming patterns during cardiac surgery. Anesth Analg. 2011;112(1):78-83. doi:10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181fcc504.