BACKGROUND: Researchers in healthcare have begun to investigate interruptions
extensively, given evidence for the adverse effects of work interruptions in other domains …

Background Researchers from diverse theoretical backgrounds have studied workplace
interruptions in healthcare, leading to a complex and conflicting body of literature …

Forgetting to perform intended actions can have major consequences, including loss of life
in some situations. Laboratory research on prospective memory—remembering (and …

Interruptions are frequent in many work domains. Researchers in health care have started to
study interruptions extensively, but their studies usually do not use a theoretically guided …

BACKGROUND: Head-mounted displays (HMDs) can help anesthesiologists with
intraoperative monitoring by keeping patients' vital signs within view at all times, even while …

Prospective memory involves remembering—and sometimes forgetting—to perform tasks
that must be deferred. This chapter summarizes and provides a perspective on research and …

There has been no research performed concerning the effects of the use of laptops and
smartphones in the operating theatre on anaesthetist performance, yet these devices are …

IMPLICATIONS: Interruptions and distractions are a frequent but necessary part of life in the
operating room. How the anesthesiologist deals with distractions may affect the incidence of …

Purpose Intensive care unit (ICU) nurses get interrupted frequently. Although interruptions
take cognitive resources from a primary task and may hinder performance, they may also …

When asked to think about the function of memory in everyday life, most people intuitively
refer to the capacity to remember things from the past, that is, to retrospectively retrieve …