Computers in Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine : Volume 3 / edited by Sreedhar Nair, Omar Prakash, Richard P. Imbruce.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Nair, Sreedhar
Other Authors: Prakash, Omar, Imbruce, Richard P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 1983.
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Table of Contents:
  • Section I
  • Monitoring in the ICU
  • Closing the Loop
  • Computerized Multibed Respiratory Monitoring
  • Criteria for Successful Use of Computers in Critical Care
  • A Manufacturer's Perspective
  • ICU Monitoring of Ventilation Distribution
  • A Distributed Microprocessor Respiratory Intensive Care Monitoring System with Mass Spectrometer, Proximal Flowmeter, and Airway Pressure Transducer
  • On Line Monitoring of Respiratory Values on a Respiratory Intensive Care Unit
  • Use of a Microprocessor Controlled, Mass Spectrometer Based Monitoring System for Risk Management in a Community Hospital ICU
  • Rapid Non-Invasive Determination of Cardiac Output at Rest by CO2 Rebreathing using a Computerized System: Application in Normal Adults with Cardiac Disease
  • Transcutaneous O2 and CO2 Monitoring in the Adult
  • Section II The USE of Computers in the Pulmonary Function Laboratory
  • Accuracy of Commercially Available Computerized Spirometers
  • The Application of the Sequential Moments of the Forced Expiratory Spirogram to an Exponential Model of the Spirogram
  • Automated Pulmonary Analysis by an On Line Microcomputer
  • Automatic Correction for the Effects of Changing Gas Viscosity in Pneumotachographic Measurements
  • Clinical Assessment of Spirometric Data
  • Computer Evaluation of Expiratory Gas Parameters and Alveolar to Arterial Differences in Clinical and Research Pulmonary Medicine
  • Computing Circuit for Breath-by-Breath Ventilation
  • History Dependence of Maximal Flow
  • Immediate Responses to Lung Irritants Detected by Automated Measurements of Airway Resistance and Partial Flow-Volume Curves
  • Lower Limits of Normal for Spirometric Reference Values
  • Measurement of Specific Diffusing Capacity (DL/VA) in Critically Ill Patients
  • A Microcomputer System for the Analysis of Spirograms
  • On Line Pulmonary Testing Utilizing a Portable Microcomputer
  • Pulmonary Fast Space Measurement from Expired PCO2: A Pulmonary Function Test Designed for Automation
  • Signal Processing for Computerized Spirometry
  • Spectral Analysis of Pulmonary Artery Pressure
  • A Standard Artificial Lung for System Calibration in Physiological Gas Exchange Measurement
  • The Measurement of Respiratory Impedance by the Forced Oscillation Method: Clinical Experiments and Their Interpretation
  • Section III
  • Database Management
  • A Microprocessor Based Data Management System in Operating Room and Intensive Care Unit
  • Clinical Experience with a Mini Computer Based Data Management System in Surgical Intensive Care
  • Clinical Relevant Data
  • What and How Often?
  • Effective Anesthesia Record Keeping Utilizing A Computerized Data Management System
  • The Data Are Collected. What's Next?
  • Utilization and Cost Effectiveness of Computerized Patient Data Management in the Multispecialty Intensive Care Unit
  • Section IV
  • Miscellaneous Subjects
  • A Microcomputer Based System for the Screening of Occupational Health Groups
  • Gravity Dependence of Crackles
  • Effect of the Medical Device Legislation on Automation in Medicine
  • Rapid Lung Sound Amplitude Measurement by Automated Flow Gated Phonopheumography
  • Implementation of an Integrated Critical Care Computer
  • What Can We Measure?