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Real time monitoring and analysis via the medical information bus, Part I

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Because of the complexity of monitored data in modern intensive care units (ICUs), and the risk of information being overlooked if medical staff have to pay attention to a multiplicity of monitoring apparatuses and alarm signals, the data for each patient may well be best presented on a single bedside screen after digestion by expert system techniques. Such central units should be able to deal with data from any monitoring apparatus, not just a predefined set. Furthermore, relay of the information from each bed to a central control station (one per ICU) is desirable for the purposes of permanent storage and for in-depth analysis. The paper describes a comprehensive system for ICU monitoring management and patient data analysis that integrates multiple expert systems and computers. The basic difficulties in applying expert system techniques to monitoring are overcome with the shell OPS/83, which allows calls to sequential C routines and allows time-driven reasoning through appropriate design of the inference engine and rules. Flexibility as regards connectable monitoring apparatus is afforded by basing data acquisition mainly, though not exclusively, on the IEEE Medical Information Bus.

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  1. Dept. of Electronics & Computing, University of Santiago, 15706, Santiago, Spain

    J. A. Taboada & J. E. Arias

  2. Dept. of Computer Science, University of La Coruña, La Coruña, Spain

    B. Arcay

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Taboada, J.A., Arcay, B. & Arias, J.E. Real time monitoring and analysis via the medical information bus, Part I. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 35, 528–534 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02525535

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