Title :
A new patient´s status indicator to facilitate decision making in anesthesia
Author :
Nevo, I. ; Roth, J.V. ; Ahmed, F. ; Guez, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Anesthesiology, Albert Einstein Med. Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Abstract :
The vital function status (VFS), a real-time indicator that continuously depicts the overall status of the patient under anesthetic, is presented. The VFS is generated by a subsystem which has been developed as a part of adaptive real-time expert system for anesthesia. The subsystem can operate independently and may be implemented in other highly monitored environments. It presents data at higher level of abstraction and does not hinder the accessibility to routine data (the routine monitors are still in use). On the contrary, more data per unit of time is being considered
Keywords :
adaptive systems; expert systems; medical computing; patient care; real-time systems; adaptive real-time expert system; anesthesia; data abstraction; decision making; real-time indicator; vital function status; Anesthesia; Anesthetic drugs; Biomedical monitoring; Computer displays; Condition monitoring; Decision making; Humans; Medical diagnostic imaging; Patient monitoring; Real time systems;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Based Medical Systems, 1991. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual IEEE Symposium
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2164-8
DOI :
10.1109/CBMS.1991.128946
