Synthesis Alerts 09/98

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Electronic fetal monitoring alerts.

May/June 2012 become an issue in medical-legal cases. There are no national standards for setting parameters for EFM alerts or the timeframe expected for acknowledgement. Often default settings are determined when the system is installed and may vary widely from one institution to another. In many cases, the default settings can be altered by the clinician based on the individual patient situat...

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Spatially-modulated Auditory Alerts

The technique of spatial modulating (“jittering”) an existing or newly created auditory alert along a virtual trajectory to improve its detection in a noisy environment is described. Threshold data from 14 participants were gathered as a function of spatial modulation rate (0, 1.6 and 3.3 Hz) of an avionics “wind sheer” alert (two successive 300 ms square waves) against a steady state backgroun...

Systematizing medical alerts

The current Swedish regulations for medical alerts in health records were designed for paper records. Suggestions for computerized systems are now being investigated. A proposed model using three alert categories, graphically represented using three directions, probably combined with three severity levels is presented here. Up represents hypersensitivities, left/back represents alerting diagnos...