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This chapter expands fault tree analysis (FTA) introduced in Chap. 2 to medical applications. The history of FTA is discussed to introduce the reader to the diversity of fields in which it finds applications for safety and discovering the root causes of mishaps. FTA is a form of backwards thinking where the investigator starts from an event and searches for the sequence of failures which led to that event. FTA is both qualitative and quantitative, therefore it lends itself well to analysis. In this chapter, a brief review of the material introduced in Chap. 2 is presented followed by case examples where the method helped arrive at the final diagnosis.
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Balakrishnan, N. (2015). Fault Tree Analysis for Medical Applications. In: Dependability in Medicine and Neurology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14968-4_3
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