Decision support in the operating theatre – usability aspects

Abstract

Anesthesiology deals with such a complex social system that it can spawn over an infinite number of states. Diagnesia, a prototype built to offer decision support to anesthetists continuously estimates the likelihood and unlikelihood of diagnoses during surgery, by applying arguments for and against the different diagnoses, and presents the most probable diagnoses to the anesthetist. In this paper, we present the usability aspects and/or design decisions pertaining the prototype