title: Automated situational analysis for operating room anesthesia monitoring.
abstract: The hospital operating room (OR) is an environment that requires up-to-the-minute, reliable information on a patient's state. Data is usually provided by a heterogeneous mixture of independent monitors that, due to their isolated nature, give complex and sometimes erroneous presentations of a patient's state. This complex presentation introduces the possibility of operating room personnel overlooking data items that indicate certain pending patient states, such as cardiac arrest. A computer based system that collects the various monitor data, summarizes its content, and provides concise discourse on a patient's state (including potential life threatening situations), would be beneficial.
authors.affiliation: Metropolitan State College of Denver, Colorado 80217-3362.
authors.forename: E B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Phelps
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Goldman
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D006801:Humans; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative