Recent guidelines recommend oxygen saturation (SpO(2)) levels of 90%-95% for preterm neonates on supplemental oxygen but it is difficult to discern such levels with current pulse oximetry sonifications. We tested (1) whether adding levels of tremolo to a conventional log-linear pulse oximetry sonification would improve identification of SpO(2) ranges, and (2) whether adding a beacon reference tone to conventional pulse oximetry confuses listeners about the direction of change. Participants using the Tremolo (94%) or Beacon (81%) sonifications identified SpO(2) range significantly more accurately than participants using the LogLinear sonification (52%). The Beaton sonification did not confuse participants about direction of change. The Tremolo sonification may have advantages over the Beacon sonification for monitoring SpO(2) of preterm neonates, but both must be further tested with clinicians in clinically representative scenarios, and with different levels of ambient noise and distractions. Crown Copyright (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/617179 |
| Date | 09 1900 |
| Creators | Deschamps, Marie-Lys, Sanderson, Penelope, Hinckfuss, Kelly, Browning, Caitlin, Loeb, Robert G., Liley, Helen, Liu, David |
| Contributors | Univ Arizona, Dept Anesthesiol |
| Publisher | ELSEVIER SCI LTD |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article |
| Rights | Copyright © 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved |
| Relation | http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0003687016300588 |
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