Department of Surgery & Anaesthesia
University of Otago, Wellington
PO Box 7343
Wellington South
Email michael.harrison@otago.ac.nz
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.
View full article here
British Academic Anaesthetists 1950 - 2000
View book by Michael J Harrison
Historical research
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
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
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.
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
Journal - Research Article
Chisholm, A. B., & Harrison, M. J. (2009). Opioid abuse amongst anaesthetists: A system to detect personal usage. Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, 37(2), 267-271.
Journal - Research Article
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
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
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
Journal - Research Article
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
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.
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
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.
Journal - Research Article
Lowe, A., & Harrison, M. J. (1999). Computer-enhanced diagnosis of malignant hyperpyrexia. Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, 27(1), 41-44.
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
Journal - Research Article
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
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 - 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
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
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
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