Testing new alarms for medical electrical equipment

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This paper reports the first of several tests of new auditory alarms originally proposed by Block et al. [1] and formalized in IEC 60601-1-8 for use in medical electrical equipment. We test whether participants who are supplied with the IEC-recommended mnemonics while learning label-alarm associations can more accurately identify the alarms after short periods of learning. Results for 18 participants strongly indicate that there is a mutual confusability between certain alarm pairs in both learning conditions, but that mnemonics may strengthen rather than diminish certain key confusions. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2005.

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Wee, A., & Sanderson, P. (2005). Testing new alarms for medical electrical equipment. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 3585 LNCS, pp. 1146–1149). https://doi.org/10.1007/11555261_125

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