Colour-coded switches

Colour-coded wristbands confusing.

Colour and Shape Based Image Retrieval for CVPIC Coded Images

Compressed domain image retrieval is going to play an increasingly important role in the future. It allows the calculation of image features and hence content-based image retrieval (CBIR) to be performed directly on the compressed data without the need of decoding it beforehand. The Colour Visual Pattern Image Coding (CVPIC) technique represents a compression algorithm where the compressed form...

Clinical application of transcranial colour-coded duplex sonography--a review.

Transcranial colour-coded duplex sonography (TCCS) is a new and non-invasive ultrasound application that combines both imaging of intracranial vessels and parenchymal structures at a high spatial resolution. This manuscript reviews the clinical applications of TCCS with focus on its diagnostic abilities in acute stroke patients. Furthermore, new experimental imaging techniques are discussed.

Does colour-coded labelling reduce the risk of medication errors?

The practice of colour-coding is controversial among patient safety groups because of insufficient evidence demonstrating that it is effective in reducing medication errors, the numerous problems that have been reported with the use of colour-code systems, and the availability of technology (bar-coding) that minimizes the human element in the final check during drug administration. Although the...

Colour-coded syringe labels: a modification to enhance patient safety.

Editor—Medication errors during anaesthesia are being reported in the literature from time to time. Misidentification of a drug because of look alike/sound alike drugs, syringe swap, confusing, inaccurate, or incomplete drug labels have been found responsible for these errors on many occasions. 1 Up to 86 –94% anaesthesiologists have agreed for the need of standardized drug labels to decrease t...