Clinical Implementation of a Head-Mounted Display of Patient Vital Signs

Author

Liu, David ; Jenkins, Simon A. ; Sanderson, Penelope M.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

fYear

2009

fDate

4-7 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

47

Lastpage

54

Abstract

Head-mounted displays (HMDs) can superimpose a patient´s vital signs over the anesthesiologist´s field of view in the operating room. Prior simulator-based studies have found that anesthesiologists wearing an HMD spend more time looking towards the patient and less time looking towards the monitors compared to standard monitoring. We review potential approaches for interfacing an HMD with clinical monitoring equipment at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, and describe the technical solution we implemented. Furthermore, we implemented a method of recording video data in the operating room without interfering with normal clinical practice. Finally, we present analyses of two clinical scenarios where HMDs might be particularly useful.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; helmet mounted displays; medical computing; video recording; clinical implementation; clinical monitoring equipment; head-mounted display; patient vital signs; Auditory displays; Computer displays; Computerized monitoring; Delay; Hospitals; ISO standards; Patient monitoring; Protocols; Surgery; Wearable computers; anesthesia; head-mounted display; patient monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wearable Computers, 2009. ISWC '09. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Linz

ISSN

1550-4816

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3779-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISWC.2009.36

Filename

5254648