Dr Michael Harrison, Department of Surgery and Anaesthesia, Our people, University of Otago, Wellington

Department of Surgery & Anaesthesia
University of Otago, Wellington
PO Box 7343
Wellington South

Current roles

Clinical Associate Professor

Clinical expertise

Retired from clinical practice as of May 2011. Was a 'general' anaesthesia specialist but had been involved with neuroanaesthesia for over twenty years. Very interested in anaesthesia monitoring.

Research expertise

'Intelligent' monitoring has been a great interest and I have investigated, with many anaesthesia and engineering colleagues, different techniques to improve the clinical relevance of monitor's alerts and alarms.

Otago anaesthetist develops unique monitoring software

New software developed by University of Otago anaesthetist Michael Harison has the potential to revolutionise patient monitoring in the operating theatre.
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British Academic Anaesthetists 1950 - 2000

View book by Michael J Harrison

Historical research

http://www.docdr.co.uk/BAA.html

Publications

Jones, R. W., Mateer, J. E., & Harrison, M. J. (2019). Malfunction transparency in clinical decision support systems: A classification approach. Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA). (pp. 1354-1359). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICIEA.2019.8834049 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Defresne, A., Harrison, M., Clement, F., Barvais, L., & Bonhomme, V. (2019). Two different methods to assess sympathetic tone during general anesthesia lead to different findings. Journal of Clinical Monitoring & Computing, 33, 463-469. doi: 10.1007/s10877-018-0175-7 Journal - Research Article

Harrison, M. J., Scott-Weekly, R., & Zacharias, M. (2015). The qualitative detection of decreases in cardiac output. Computers in Biology & Medicine, 58, 85-90. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2014.12.017 Journal - Research Article

Hunter, S. A., McLachlan, A., Ikeda, T., Harrison, M. J., & Galletly, D. C. (2014). Teaching of the sensitive examinations: An international survey. Open Journal of Preventive Medicine, 4(1), 41-49. doi: 10.4236/ojpm.2014.41007 Journal - Research Article

Baig, M. M., GholamHosseini, H., & Harrison, M. J. (2013). Fuzzy logic based anaesthesia monitoring systems for the detection of absolute hypovolaemia. Computers in Biology & Medicine, 43(6), 683-692. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2013.01.023 Journal - Research Article

2019

Journal - Research Article

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

2015

Journal - Research Article

2014

Journal - Research Article

2013

Journal - Research Article

2012

Journal - Research Article

Baig, M. M., GholamHosseini, H., & Harrison, M. J. (2012). Fuzzy logic based smart anaesthesia monitoring system in the operation theatre. WSEAS Transactions on Circuits & Systems, 11(1), 21-32.

2011

Journal - Research Article

Baig, M. M., GholamHosseini, H., Kouzani, A., & Harrison, M. J. (2011). Anaesthesia monitoring using fuzzy logic. Journal of Clinical Monitoring & Computing, 25(5), 339-347. doi: 10.1007/s10877-011-9315-z

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Baig, M. M., GholamHosseini, H., Lee, S.-W., & Harrison, M. J. (2011). Detection and classification of hypovolaemia during anaesthesia. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). (pp. 357-360). doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090117

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Harrison, M. (2011, August). Simple to complex and back again: Intra-operative diagnostics. Verbal presentation at the Medical Sciences Congress (MedSci), Queenstown, New Zealand.

2010

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Mirza, M., GholamHosseini, H., & Harrison, M. J. (2010). A fuzzy logic-based system for anaesthesia monitoring. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). 2010, (pp. 3974-3977). doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627987

2009

Journal - Research Article

Faulke, D., Etchells, T. A., Harrison, M. J., & Lisboa, P. J. G. (2009). Determination of mode of ventilation using OSRE. Computers in Biology & Medicine, 39(11), 1032-1035. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2009.08.004

Chisholm, A. B., & Harrison, M. J. (2009). Opioid abuse amongst anaesthetists: A system to detect personal usage. Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, 37(2), 267-271.

Connor, C. W., Gohil, B., & Harrison, M. J. (2009). Triggering of systolic arterial pressure alarms using statistics-based versus threshold alarms. Anaesthesia, 64(2), 131-135. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2008.05738.x

2008

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Lee, K., Yang, K. J., Plimmer, B., & Harrison, M. (2008). Real-time anaesthesia diagnosis display system with multi-modal alarms. Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Designing for Habitus and Habitat. (pp. 303-306). NY: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1517744.1517795

2007

Journal - Research Article

Harrison, M. J., & Connor, C. W. (2007). Statistics-based alarms from sequential physiological measurements. Anaesthesia, 62(10), 1015-1023. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2007.05187.x

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Gohil, B., GholamHosseini, H., Harrison, M. J., Lowe, A., & Al-Jumaily, A. (2007). Intelligent monitoring of critical pathological events during anesthesia. Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). (pp. 4343-4346). doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353298

2006

Journal - Research Article

Harrison, M. J. (2006). Variation in preoperative assessment of cardiac output reserve and likelihood of transfusion among anaesthetists: A pilot study. Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, 34(4), 453-456.

Etchells, T. A., & Harrison, M. J. (2006). Orthogonal search-based rule extraction for modelling the decision to transfuse. Anaesthesia, 61(4), 335-338. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2006.04545.x

2001

Journal - Research Article

Harrison, M. J. (2001). Tracking the early acquisition of skills by trainees. Anaesthesia, 56(10), 995-998. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2001.01974-3.x

2000

Journal - Research Article

Harrison, M. J., Kluger, M. T., & Robertson, N. N. (2000). The relationship between change in blood pressure, blood pressure and time. Anaesthesia, 55(4), 385-387.

1999

Journal - Research Article

Lowe, A., & Harrison, M. J. (1999). Computer-enhanced diagnosis of malignant hyperpyrexia. Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, 27(1), 41-44.

1990

Journal - Research Article

Harrison, M. J. (1990). Prediction of infusion rates: Validation of a computer simulation using vecuronium. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 64(3), 287-293. doi: 10.1093/bja/64.3.287