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The complexity of the monitored data available in modern intensive care units suggests that they may be best processed, for presentation to medical staff, by expert system techniques. However, standard expert system shells are ill-fitted to either the basic sequential monitoring tasks of data acquisition and storage, or to handling the temporal considerations inherent in monitoring and in the recognition and processing of sporadic alarm signals. A solution to this dilemma is described: an expert system that has an appropriately designed inference engine and manages data acquisition via a medical information bus (MIB). Use of this MIB standard allows great flexibility as regards the monitoring apparatuses employed; in particular, the connection or disconnection of any apparatus is recognised and triggers the automatic reconfiguration of the network.
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Taboada, J.A., Arcay, B. & Arias, J.E. Real time monitoring and analysis via the medical information bus, Part II. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 35, 535–539 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02525536
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