Feasibility of healthcare providers' autonomic activation recognition in real-life cardiac surgery using noninvasive sensors

• Main Authors: Kennedy-Metz, Lauren R., Bizzego, Andrea, Dias, Roger D., Furlanello, Cesare, Esposito, Gianluca, Zenati, Marco A.
• Other Authors: C. Stephanidis
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Cardiac Surgery; Cognitive Engineering; Neuroergonomics; Emotion Recognition; Heart Rate Variability
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152452
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Cardiac surgery is one of the most complex specialties in medicine, akin to a complex sociotechnical system. Patient outcomes are vulnerable to surgical flow disruptions (SFDs), a source of preventable harm. Healthcare providers’ (HCPs) sympathetic activation secondary to emotional states represent...