Date/Time
Date(s) - April 09, 2020
11:45 am - 12:45 pm

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David Neyens, Ph.D., MPH
Associate Professor
Clemson University

Abstract: Examining the Anesthesia Work System, Anesthesia Delivery, and Medication Errors

We study the system design and human factors issues related to the delivery of anesthesia within the operating room. We have focused on the physical workstation, the task inherent in the process, as well as the interaction between the different people and equipment involved in a surgical case. We are currently studying the types of medication errors that could occur, how to design interventions, and strategies to evaluate the system implications of those interventions. One particular intervention that we have studied is the use of gestural input technology for use in anesthesia delivery as anesthesia providers’ hands have been linked to bacterial transmission. Specifically, we will discuss a study that investigates intuitive gesture choice under an anesthetic context using a Bayesian statistical approach to model and predict the multinomial gesture choice data for domain experts and domain novices in anesthesia. The results suggest that human behavior in this context can be predicted using a Bayesian statistics approach. Across all of our work, the way clinicians and human system engineers assess errors and quantify behaviors has implications for design and ultimately patient safety.

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Meeting ID: 951-811-250