Title :
ECOPED: an informative system for pediatric echocardiography
Author :
Dalmiani, S. ; Festa, P. ; Ali, L. Ait ; Vellani, A. ; Taddei, A.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Clinical Physiol., CNR, Pisa
Abstract :
Diagnosis of congenital heart disease in young patients represents a complex assessment of instrumental parameters and requires often a surgical procedure to correct structures morphologies and related functions. An information system for the management of echocardiographic examinations in patients with suspected or ascertained congenital heart disease, was developed in our departments of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery. This system uses a new model for workflow and clinical dataset collection. For each diagnostic related group, according to EACTS Congenital Database and European Pediatric Cardiology nomenclatures, was defined a set of relevant echocardiographic data to be collected (Pathology Related Dataset, PRD), in order to comply with a comprehensive diagnostic assessment of the patient
Keywords :
database management systems; diseases; echocardiography; medical information systems; nomenclature; paediatrics; EACTS congenital database; ECOPED; European pediatric cardiology nomenclatures; clinical dataset collection; congenital heart disease diagnosis; echocardiographic examination management; information system; pediatric echocardiography; surgical procedure; workflow; Cardiac disease; Cardiology; Databases; Echocardiography; Pathology; Pediatrics; Physiology; Surface morphology; Surgery; Surges;
Conference_Titel :
Computers in Cardiology, 2005
Conference_Location :
Lyon
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9337-6
DOI :
10.1109/CIC.2005.1588132
