Strategy evaluation in patients with sustained ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation by decision network analysis

Author

Dijk, W.A. ; Kingma, J.H. ; Hoogteijling, E. ; van der Velde, W. ; Lie, K.I. ; van Hemel, N.M.

Author_Institution

Univ. Hospital Groningen, Netherlands

fYear

1992

Firstpage

219

Lastpage

222

Abstract

The authors describe the evaluation of a computer assisted management system to support protocol guided treatment of patients suffering from life threatening ventricular arrhythmias. The system advises and keeps track of all relevant information. The setup of the system is flexible so that derivations from the protocol and enhancements of the stored knowledge can be realized with modest effort. The management system uses FoxPro as database management system, runs under MS-DOS, and communicates with the central departmental database computer by means of PC-NFS through remote shell facilities. The programs for the central database are written in FORTRAN 77. The system runs under the AIX operating system on an IBM RS6000

Keywords

cardiology; database management systems; decision support systems; medical administrative data processing; patient treatment; AIX operating system; FORTRAN 77; FoxPro; IBM RS6000; MS-DOS; PC-NFS; computer assisted management system; decision network analysis; fibrillation; life threatening ventricular arrhythmias; medical strategy evaluation; protocol guided treatment; remote shell facilities; sustained ventricular tachycardia; Databases; Electrical stimulation; Electrocardiography; Fibrillation; Hospitals; Knowledge management; Medical treatment; Patient monitoring; Protocols; Surgery;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Cardiology 1992, Proceedings of

Conference_Location

Durham, NC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3552-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIC.1992.269407

Filename

269407