Computing in Anesthesia and Intensive Care

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Computer Operating Systems for Patient Monitoring....Pages 1-10
On the Use of Computers in the Practice of Anaesthesia....Pages 11-24
Computerized Data Acquisition and Display in Anesthesia....Pages 25-43
Microcomputer Based Automatic Capture of Signals from Non-Invasive Instruments....Pages 44-60
Physiologic Monitoring of Critically Ill Patients: Computerized data acquisition, outcome prediction, organization of therapy and prospective clinical trials....Pages 61-77
Set Up and Results ICU Database....Pages 78-85
An Interactive Information System for Anaesthesia....Pages 86-95
Automated Analysis of the Esophageal Accelerogram as a Minimally Invasive Monitor of Manifest Contractile State....Pages 96-106
Information Transfer from Operating Room to ICU....Pages 107-115
Energy Metabolism....Pages 116-120
Gas Distribution and Ventilation-Perfusion Relationships during Anaesthesia and in Acute Respiratory Failure. Clinical Implications....Pages 121-140
Continuous Monitoring of Intrathoracic Fluid....Pages 141-152
The Potential of Computer Modelling Techniques in Intensive Care Medicine....Pages 153-169
An Interactive Program for Intravenous Drug Infusion Management....Pages 170-183
Computer Assisted Learning in Anaesthesiology....Pages 184-192
Teaching With “Attending”: Tutorial Use of an Expert System....Pages 193-201
Introductory Courses in Computing for Anaesthetists....Pages 202-213
The Use of Computer-Generated Numbers in Interpreting the EEG....Pages 214-226
Automatic EEG Monitoring During Anesthesia....Pages 227-257
Computerized EMG and EEG Correlates of Consciousness....Pages 258-268
Computer Control of Anesthesia Delivery....Pages 269-278
Computer Controlled Anaesthesia....Pages 279-291
Computer Regulated Sodium Nitroprusside Infusion for Blood Pressure Control....Pages 292-301
Computer Controlled Infusion of Drugs During Anesthesia: Methods of Muscle Relaxant and Narcotic Administration....Pages 302-315
Oxygen Requirements during Anesthesia....Pages 316-327
Real Time Oximetry....Pages 328-341
Graphic Presentation of blood gas data....Pages 342-353
Teaching the Interpretation of Acid-Base and Blood Gas Parameters by Computer Application....Pages 354-365
Visual Evoked Potentials During Cardiac Surgery, Basic Considerations....Pages 366-386
Phosphorus Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ( 31 P NMR): A Computer Based Instrument for Studying Brain Hypoxia....Pages 387-401
Measuring Pulmonary Blood Flow with an 8085....Pages 402-415
A Microcomputer-Based Charting System for Documentation of Heamodynamic, Respiratory Parameters and Drug Administration During Cardiac Anaesthesia....Pages 416-422
Computer Control of Intravenous Anesthesia....Pages 423-430