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Alarm Management In Intensive Care – Ucsf Study: Lessons Learned And Future Challenges, Patricia Harris May 2015

Alarm Management In Intensive Care – Ucsf Study: Lessons Learned And Future Challenges, Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

No abstract available


Integrating Monitor Alarms With Laboratory Test Results To Enhance Patient Deterioration Prediction, Yong Bai, Duc H. Do, Patricia Harris, Daniel Schindler, Noel G. Boyle, Barbara J. Drew, Xiao Hu Jan 2015

Integrating Monitor Alarms With Laboratory Test Results To Enhance Patient Deterioration Prediction, Yong Bai, Duc H. Do, Patricia Harris, Daniel Schindler, Noel G. Boyle, Barbara J. Drew, Xiao Hu

Patricia Harris

Patient monitors in modern hospitals have become ubiquitous but they generate an excessive number of false alarms causing alarm fatigue. Our previous work showed that combinations of frequently co-occurring monitor alarms, called SuperAlarm patterns, were capable of predicting in-hospital code blue events at a lower alarm frequency. In the present study, we extend the conceptual domain of a SuperAlarm to incorporate laboratory test results along with monitor alarms so as to build an integrated data set to mine SuperAlarm patterns. We propose two approaches to integrate monitor alarms with laboratory test results and use a maximal frequent itemsets mining algorithm …


False Ventricular Tachycardia Alarm Suppression In The Icu Based On The Discrete Wavelet Transform In The Ecg Signal, Rebeca Salas-Boni, Yong Bai, Patricia Harris, Barbara J. Drew, Xiao Hu Oct 2014

False Ventricular Tachycardia Alarm Suppression In The Icu Based On The Discrete Wavelet Transform In The Ecg Signal, Rebeca Salas-Boni, Yong Bai, Patricia Harris, Barbara J. Drew, Xiao Hu

Patricia Harris

Over the past few years, reducing the number of false positive cardiac monitor alarms (FA) in the intensive care unit (ICU) has become an issue of the utmost importance. In our work, we developed a robust methodology that, without the need for additional non-ECG waveforms, suppresses false positive ventricular tachycardia (VT) alarms without resulting in false negative alarms. Our approach is based on features extracted from the ECG signal 20 seconds prior to a triggered alarm. We applied a multi resolution wavelet transform to the ECG data 20seconds prior to the alarm trigger, extracted features from appropriately chosen scales and …


Heart Rate Turbulence In Patients With Respiratory Failure [Poster], Patricia Harris Mar 2013

Heart Rate Turbulence In Patients With Respiratory Failure [Poster], Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

No abstract available


Prelimimary Findings From The “Analysis Of Patient Bedside Monitor Alarms” Study, Patricia Harris Dec 2012

Prelimimary Findings From The “Analysis Of Patient Bedside Monitor Alarms” Study, Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

No abstract available


Heart Rate Turbulence In Patients With Acute Respiratory Failure [Poster], Patricia Harris Dec 2012

Heart Rate Turbulence In Patients With Acute Respiratory Failure [Poster], Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

No abstract available


Comparison Of 1-Year Survival And Heart Rate Variability In Acute Coronary Syndrome. [Abstract], Patricia R.E. Harris, Phyllis K. Stein, Barbara J. Drew Oct 2010

Comparison Of 1-Year Survival And Heart Rate Variability In Acute Coronary Syndrome. [Abstract], Patricia R.E. Harris, Phyllis K. Stein, Barbara J. Drew

Patricia Harris

Numerous studies support the use of heart rate variability (HRV) for risk stratification in the post–myocardial infarction (MI) population. However, little is known about the prognostic value of HRV measured during the acute phase of MI and unstable angina (ie, acute coronary syndrome, or ACS).


Heart Rate Turbulence And Risk Stratification In Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients. [Abstract 0153], Patricia Harris, P. K. Stein, Barbara J. Drew Dec 2009

Heart Rate Turbulence And Risk Stratification In Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients. [Abstract 0153], Patricia Harris, P. K. Stein, Barbara J. Drew

Patricia Harris

Abnormal heart rate turbulence (HRT) is a significant risk for adverse outcomes after myocardial infarction (MI). Less is known about HRT measured during acute coronary syndrome, i.e. ST-elevation MI (STEMI), non-ST-elevation MI (non-STEMI), and unstable angina (UA).


Heart Rate Turbulence And Risk Stratification In Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients [Poster], Patricia Harris Dec 2009

Heart Rate Turbulence And Risk Stratification In Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients [Poster], Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

No abstract available


Comparison Heart Rate Variability And One-Year Survival In Acute Coronary Syndrome [Poster], Patricia Harris Dec 2009

Comparison Heart Rate Variability And One-Year Survival In Acute Coronary Syndrome [Poster], Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

No abstract available


Preliminary Comparison Of Exercise Reporting Between Electronic And Paper Logs [Abstract], D. Donesky-Cuenco, P. R.E. Harris, H. Nguyen, S. Wolpin, V. Carrieri-Kohlman Dec 2008

Preliminary Comparison Of Exercise Reporting Between Electronic And Paper Logs [Abstract], D. Donesky-Cuenco, P. R.E. Harris, H. Nguyen, S. Wolpin, V. Carrieri-Kohlman

Patricia Harris

No abstract available


Doctoral Forum Presenter On The Doctoral Program’S Research Residency, Patricia Harris Dec 2008

Doctoral Forum Presenter On The Doctoral Program’S Research Residency, Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

No abstract available


Presenter For New Doctoral Student Orientation, Patricia Harris Dec 2007

Presenter For New Doctoral Student Orientation, Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

No abstract available


To Breathe: The Lived Experience Of Mechanical Ventilation. [Abstract], P. R.E. Harris, E. Pillor, R. Nelson Apr 2007

To Breathe: The Lived Experience Of Mechanical Ventilation. [Abstract], P. R.E. Harris, E. Pillor, R. Nelson

Patricia Harris

Traditional pulmonary physiology teaches that moving from a supine to a partial Fowler’s position is an effective maneuver to increase functional residual capacity (FRC). This pilot study investigated whether a postural intervention improved FRC and the ratio of closing capacity (CC) to FRC in a sample of overweight and mildly to moderately obese persons. The study also evaluated whether, and to what extent, body mass and body fat distribution influenced these effects.


The Experience Of Mechanical Ventilation [Poster], Patricia Harris Dec 2006

The Experience Of Mechanical Ventilation [Poster], Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

No abstract available


University Of California, San Francisco, School Of Nursing, Patricia Harris Dec 2005

University Of California, San Francisco, School Of Nursing, Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

No abstract available


Medication Administration Safety: Implementing A Systems Approach [Poster], Patricia Harris Dec 2004

Medication Administration Safety: Implementing A Systems Approach [Poster], Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

No abstract provided.


Critical Care Course Lecturer For Class On Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Patricia Harris Dec 2003

Critical Care Course Lecturer For Class On Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

No abstract available


Critical Care Course Lecturer For Series In Respiratory Failure And Ventilator Management, Patricia Harris Dec 2003

Critical Care Course Lecturer For Series In Respiratory Failure And Ventilator Management, Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

No abstract available


Presenter For Nursing Research; Original Research Proposal Presentation, Patricia Harris Dec 2003

Presenter For Nursing Research; Original Research Proposal Presentation, Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

No abstract available


Podium Presentation On The Nursing Student Experience, Patricia Harris Dec 1993

Podium Presentation On The Nursing Student Experience, Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

No abstract available