The field of sonification has progressed greatly over the past twenty years and currently
constitutes an established area of research. This article aims at exploiting and organizing …

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

METHODS: An observer recorded time-stamped information of alarms and the presence of
health care team members in the patient room; each alarm response was classified as …

The impact of technology on the health and well-being of workers has been a topic of
interest since computers and computerized technology were widely introduced in the 1980s …

Three experiments explored the effectiveness of continuous auditory displays, or
sonifications, for conveying information about a simulated anesthetized patient's respiration …

Objective: We explore whether ecological interface design (EID) principles can be applied to
the design of an auditory display for anesthesia monitoring. Background: EID examples …

IMPLICATIONS: This paper presents a critical review of advanced display technologies to
support anesthesia monitoring. We review laboratory, simulator, and clinical studies of …

This chapter shows how the human factors and ergonomics (HFE) discipline can provide
concepts, methods, and information for analyzing and redesigning health care systems and …

BACKGROUND: In a full-scale anesthesia simulator study we examined the relative
effectiveness of advanced auditory displays for respiratory and blood pressure monitoring …

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 …