Ventilator disconnexion alarm failures.

A Vibratory Alarm for a Ventilator

designing the vocal alarm and improving medical ventilator

abstract background : today, as many as 1.5 million americans use ventilators once in a year. .response to mechanical ventilation alarms remains to be one of the most challenging tasks facing physicians, nurses or other medical personnel in the icu. in the present study we aimed to compare the response times to “vocal alarms” and “visual or audible ones”. methods : in the present study we devel...

Disconnexion Syndromes in Animals and Man

Early Warning of Failures through Alarm Analysis - A Case Study in Telecom Voice Mail Systems

This paper presents three principles for alarm analysis to develop early warnings of failure. The concepts are illustrated with real data and experience drawn from Comverse Voice Mail systems installed by Telecom service providers worldwide. The case study demonstrates practicality of the approach and insight to further advance this body of research.

Fifty years of disconnexion syndromes and the Geschwind legacy.

‘I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. . .I sat at the table turning the pages, my mind barely aware that I was reading, and my whole life was changing as I read the new words on each page.’ [From the opening paragraph of Orhan Pamuk’s Yeni Hayat (New Life), English translation by Güneli Gün]. Had Pamuk’s protagonist been a behavioural neurologist, he might have chosen similar wo...