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Decision Support and Closed-Loop Systems

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This chapter gives an overview of two computer-based technologies that can help clinicians make decisions in the face of an incessant flow of physiological data from monitors: decision support and closed-loop systems. Decision support systems provide a number of tools to integrate data from different sources and extract patterns in order to facilitate decision-making by the clinician. Closed-loop systems on the other hand completely automate the decision-making process by automatically acting on the system being controlled. A typical example is closed-loop control of drug delivery based on a measured clinical effect. Closed-loop systems are ideal when accurate, fast control is desired.

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GA Dumont is coinventor of the NeuroSENSE monitor (NeuroWave Systems Inc., Cleveland, OH). He has consulted for NeuroWave Systems Inc and GE Healthcare.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, 2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada

    Guy A. Dumont PhD

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  1. Departments of Anesthesiology, Surgery, and Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

    Jesse M. Ehrenfeld

  2. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA

    Maxime Cannesson

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Dumont, G.A. (2014). Decision Support and Closed-Loop Systems. In: Ehrenfeld, J., Cannesson, M. (eds) Monitoring Technologies in Acute Care Environments. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8557-5_6

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