Tracking clinical staff behaviors in an operating room
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Author(s)
Azevedo-Coste, Christine
Pissard-Gibollet, Roger
Toupet, Gaelle
Fleury, Éric
Lucet, Jean-Christophe
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Inadequate staff behaviors in an operating room (OR) may lead to environmental contamination and increase the risk of surgical site infection. In order to assess this statement objectively, we have developed an approach to analyze OR staff behaviors using a motion tracking system. The present article introduces a solution for the assessment of individual displacements in the OR by: (1) detecting human presence and quantifying movements using a motion capture (MOCAP) system and (2) observing doors’ movements by means of a wireless network of inertial sensors fixed on the doors and synchronized with the MOCAP system. The system was used in eight health care facilities sites during 30 cardiac and orthopedic surgery interventions. A total of 119 h of data were recorded and analyzed. Three hundred thirty four individual displacements were reconstructed. On average, only 10.6% individual positions could not be reconstructed and were considered undetermined, i.e., the presence in the room of the corresponding staff member could not be determined. The article presents the hardware and software developed together with the obtained reconstruction performances.
Date Issued
2019-05-17
Date Acceptance
2019-05-13
Citation
Sensors, 2019, 19 (10)
ISSN
1424-2818
Publisher
MDPI
Journal / Book Title
Sensors
Volume
19
Issue
10
Copyright Statement
©2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access
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(CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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(CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Subjects
Analytical Chemistry
0301 Analytical Chemistry
0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2019-05-17