Title :
Automatic adaptive limit and level management of arrhythmia alarms
Author :
Genc, Sahika ; Johnson, Timothy L.
Author_Institution :
Comput. & Decision Sci., Gen. Electr. Global Res., Niskayuna, NY, USA
Abstract :
Automatic adaptive alarm limit and level management logic, to reduce workflow for electrocardiographic monitoring devices, is described. Performance and functional requirements for alarm limit and level adaptation logic are developed. The design for a single patient processing unit of adaptive alarm management logic for a single alarm, a collection of concurrent and asynchronous Timed Input/Output Automata, is presented. Performance results are provided on a data set consisting of 158 alarm records, roughly approximating a month´s admissions in an Intensive Care Unit at a large hospital.
Keywords :
alarm systems; automata theory; biomedical equipment; electrocardiography; formal logic; medical signal processing; patient monitoring; adaptive alarm management logic; arrhythmia alarms; asynchronous timed input/output automata; automatic adaptive alarm limit; automatic adaptive limit; concurrent timed input/output automata; electrocardiographic monitoring devices; functional requirements; hospital; intensive care unit; level adaptation logic; level management logic; performance requirements; single patient processing unit; workflow reduction; Acoustic noise; Adaptation models; Biomedical monitoring; Electrocardiography; Heart rate; Monitoring; Radiation detectors; Timed Automata; alarms; medical decision making;
Conference_Titel :
Dependable Control of Discrete Systems (DCDS), 2011 3rd International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Saarbrucken
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8969-5
DOI :
10.1109/DCDS.2011.5970327