Abstract :
Alarm considerations like recording, sensory channels and types are given. Typical ICU, an expert system and standards described. The alarm pulse oximeter is considered including diseases of oxygen, definitions and equations, calibration with a modelled oxyhaemoglobin dissociation curve (the model is applied to 5 cases), evidence, advantages and disadvantages and a description of a stochastic model of a medical alarm with application
Conference_Titel :
Medical Equipment Alarms The need, The Standards, The Evidence (Ref. No. 1998/432), IEE Colloquium On