Keeping the patient asleep and alive: Towards a computational cognitive model of disturbance management in anaesthesia

We have analysed rich, dynamic data about the behaviour of anaesthetists during the management of a simulated critical incident in the operating theatre. We use a paper based analysis and a partial implementation to further the development of a computational cognitive model for disturbance management in anaesthesia. We suggest that our data analysis pattern may be used for the analysis of behavioural data describing cognitive and observable events in other complex dynamic domains.