Computers in Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine: Volume 3

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages xiii-xiii
Closing the Loop....Pages 1-7
Computerized Multibed Respiratory Monitoring....Pages 9-26
Criteria for Successful Use of Computers in Critical Care -- A Manufacturer’s Perspective....Pages 27-31
ICU Monitoring of Ventilation Distribution....Pages 33-44
A Distributed Microprocessor Respiratory Intensive Care Monitoring System with Mass Spectrometer, Proximal Flowmeter, and Airway Pressure Transducer....Pages 45-57
On Line Monitoring of Respiratory Values on a Respiratory Intensive Care Unit....Pages 59-63
Use of a Microprocessor Controlled, Mass Spectrometer Based Monitoring System for Risk Management in a Community Hospital ICU....Pages 65-71
Rapid, Non-Invasive Determination of Cardiac Output at Rest by CO 2 Rebreathing Using a Computerized System: Application in Normal Adults and Patients with Cardiac Disease....Pages 73-82
Transcutaneous O 2 and CO 2 Monitoring in the Adult....Pages 83-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Accuracy of Commercially Available Computerized Spirometers....Pages 95-97
The Application of the Sequential Moments of the Forced Expiratory Spirogram to an Exponential Model of the Spirogram....Pages 99-101
Automated Pulmonary Analysis by an Online Microcomputer....Pages 103-113
Automatic Correction for the Effects of Changing Gas Viscosity in Pneumotachographic Measurements....Pages 115-118
Clinical Assessment of Spirometric Data....Pages 119-124
Computer Evaluation of Expiratory Gas Parameters and Alveolar to Arterial Differences in Clinical and Research Pulmonary Medicine....Pages 125-133
Computing Circuit for Breath-by-Breath Ventilation....Pages 135-138
History Dependence of Maximal Flow....Pages 139-143
Immediate Responses to Lung Irritants Detected by Automated Measurements of Airway Resistance and Partial Flow-Volume Curves....Pages 145-156
Lower Limits of Normal for Spirometric Reference Values....Pages 157-165
Measurement of Specific Diffusing Capacity (D L /V A ) in Critically Ill Patients....Pages 167-175
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
A Microcomputer System for the Analysis of Spirograms....Pages 177-179
On Line Pulmonary Testing Utilizing a Portable Microcomputer....Pages 181-186
Pulmonary Fast Space Measurement from Expired PCO 2 a Pulmonary Function Test Designed for Automation....Pages 187-193
Signal Processing for Computerized Spirometry....Pages 195-203
Spectral Analysis of Pulmonary Artery Pressure....Pages 205-212
A Standard Artificial Lung for System Calibration in Physiological Gas Exchange Measurement....Pages 213-220
The Measurement of Respiratory Impedance by the Forced Oscillation Method: Clinical Experiments and Their Interpretation....Pages 221-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
A Microprocessor Based Data Management System in the Operating Room and Intensive Care Unit....Pages 225-232
Clinical Experience with a Mini-Computer Based Data Management System in Surgical Intensive Care....Pages 233-238
Clinical, relevant data -- what and how often?....Pages 239-245
Effective Anesthesia Record Keeping Utilizing a Computerized Data Management System....Pages 247-252
The Data are Collected. What’s Next?....Pages 253-261
Utilization and Cost Effectiveness of Computerized Patient Data Management in the Multispecialty Intensive Care Unit....Pages 263-270
Front Matter....Pages 271-271
A Microcomputer Based System for the Screening of Occupational Health Groups....Pages 273-278
Gravity Dependence of Crackles....Pages 279-286
Effect of the Medical Device Legislation on Automation in Medicine....Pages 287-291
Rapid Lung Sound Amplitude Measurement by Automated Flow Gated Phonopneumography....Pages 293-296
Implementation of an Integrated Critical Care Computer....Pages 297-312
What can we measure?....Pages 313-318
Back Matter....Pages 319-329