title: [Comments on anesthesia machines' and monitors' designs].
abstract: From a view point of an anesthesiologist, the article points out some design issues of modern monitors and anesthesia machines. User interface problems such as auto-adjusted amplitude display, excessively complicated menus, unreasonable switch arrangement, unsuitable alarm settings or identical cylinder connectors, may affect patient safety and increase anesthesiologists' workload or mental burden.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310016.
authors.forename: Da-Chun
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012449:Safety