Computing and Monitoring in Anesthesia and Intensive Care

Patient Safety: Minimum Requirements and Advanced Techniques in Monitoring.- Minimum Monitoring Requirements (USA).- Oxygen Monitoring in Respiratory Gas.- Anesthetic Gas Monitoring.- Intraoperative Echocardiography.- CNS Monitoring.- Patient Monitoring — The European View.- Artificial Intelligence.- Artificial Neural Networks in Medical Monitoring: A Primer for Physicians.- The Use of Model and Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Patient Monitoring.- Expert System.- A Computational Architecture Using Procedural Reasoning for Decision Support in Anesthesiology.- Critical Care Decision Support Systems.- Intelligént Alarm System for Anesthesia (IASA).- A Knowledge Based Alarmer for the Postoperative Care of Cardiac Patients.- Medical Expert Systems with Physiological Models for Hemodynamical Monitoring.- Information Interpretation in a Real-Time Knowledge-Based Respiratory Monitoring System.- Computer Assisted Diagnostic Procedures in the Pain Clinic Using an Expert System.- Simulation and Modeling.- ASC: Educational Anesthesia Simulator with Expert System.- Digital Computer Simulation of Cardiovascular System in Bleeding Patient for Clinical Management.- Gas Man Simulates Correct Alveolar Plateaus and Quantifies Overpressure for Desired Alveolar Tension.- Real Time Joint of Pharmacokinetic Simulation and Monitoring in Inhalational Agents.- A 24-Hour Prediction Model of Blood Pressure Employing Endocrine System and Autonomic Nervous System.- A Simulation Analysis for Optimal Plasma Potassium Concentration during Cardiopulmonary Extracorporeal Bypass.- Eucapnic Hyperpnea Facilitates Recovery from Inhalational Anesthesia.- Anaesthetic Agent Uptake and Distribution.- A Theoretical Analysis of Optimal Control of Cardiovascular System.- Education.- A Revised Computer Program for Respiratory Care and Blood Gases.- Use of Pharmacologic Models for Teaching Anesthesiology Residents.- Automated Control.- Computer Controlled Infusion Systems.- Computer Controlled Continuous Infusion.- A Computer-Aided Controller of Fluid Infusion Rate in Post- Operative Management of Open Heart Surgery.- Computer Aided Patient (CAP) Care System.- Fluid Control Based on Fuzzy Control Algorithm.- A Simulation and a Control System of Neuromuscular Blockade.- Evaluation of a Computer Aided Propofol Infusion System.- Computerised Alfentanil Infusion in Postoperative Analgesia.- Assessment of the Value of Computerized Propofol Infusion.- Development of a Computer Controlled Infusion System.- Isocapnic Clamping with Feedback and Feed-Forward Control.- The Intelligent Control System of Physiological System Regulation.- Performance Evaluation of a Closed-Loop Sodium Nitroprusside Delivery Device during Hypotensive Anesthesia in Mongrel Dogs.- Adaptive Control of Arterial Pressure: A Supervisor can Improve Safety and Efficacy.- A Computer Control System of Applying Anesthesia Using Fuzzy Logic for Medical Operation (Categorization of anaesthesiologists thinking represented by artificial intelligence and comparison of each category).- Automatic Adjustment of Minute Volume by Carbon Dioxide Excretion with Servocontrol System.- Patient Data Management System.- Patient Data Management.- Anesthesia Records, Displays, and Alarms.- PDP System/PC an Efficient Combination for Data Management in the Intensive Care Unit.- Data Management in the Operating Room and Intensive Care.- Computerized Monitoring and Recording System in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine Using an Engineering Work Station.- Computerized Intraoperative Monitoring System at Montefiore University Hospital.- Microcomputer Management of Anesthetized Patients’ Information.- Laboratory Data Management in Our ICU.- A Computerized Graphic Monitoring System for the Management of Open Heart Surgery.- The Anesthesia Information Console: An Integrated Information System for Anesthetic Care.- Perioperative Data Management System — An Initial Report on the Intraoperative Patient Data Management System.- Automated Analog and Digital Data Logging System in Intensive Care Unit.- Clinical Process Models for Intensive Care.- Ohmeda Arkivel Patient Information Management System — An Operating Room Based Database Analysis Network.- Network.- LAN in the Automatic Collection of Postoperative Monitoring Data.- Multiple Media for Monitoring Respired Air during Anesthesia.- On-Line Data Integration System in Kanazawa Medical University Hospital.- Intraoperative Transmission of Digital Data Using Intelligent Radio Modems.- Use of an Inter-Bed Local Area Network System in Operating Room.- A System of Computer Integration of Patient Monitors in Operating Rooms.- Development of Operation System.- On-line Multi-Channel Audio-Video Signal Transmission by Optical Fiber and its Clinical Use.- Wireless Data Communication: Example of an Application for the Operating Room.- Remote Monitoring of Home Ventilation Through the Personal Paging System.- Data Base.- Anesthetic Concerns in Uncommon Diseases — A New Database.- Data-Base in Our Department Using REXAS as a Sort of LAN.- An Application of the Optical Drive System for Keeping Anesthesia Records.- An Ultrafiche Storage of Anesthesia Case, Computer Display and Search by a Scanner.- Management of Anesthesia Record Using Hyper-Text System.- Data Record.- Monitor; a Low Cost, Versatile Acquisition Program.- Time Keeper and History Maker in an Anesthesia Practice.- Clinical Usefulness of Fiberoptic D-C Coupling EKG Monitoring System.- Registration of Data during Narcosis for Scientific Evaluation.- Registration and Documentation of All Data Relevant for Narcosis.- Continuous Digital Values Recording in Hemodynamic Research.- An Application of a Data Transfer Program (Lotus Measure™) with a Pulse Oximeter.- A Personal Computerized Anesthesia Recording System — With Multiplexer and Serial Interfaced Monitors.- Automated Record Keeping.- Information Management Systems, Especially the Automatic Anesthetic Record Keeper.- The Influence of the Automatic Anesthetic Recording on Surgeon- Anesthetist Relationship.- Automatic Recording in Clinical Anaesthesia: Three Years Experience.- What do We Write on Anesthesia Records? — Analysis of Descriptive Information.- Automated Data Collection in a Simulated Respiratory Circuit.- Development of a Computer-Assisted Monitoring System for the ICU Patient Management.- Anesthesia Machine.- Anesthesia Machine Design.- Systems Engineering.- A Turning Point to Systems Engineering.- People and Machine Interface.- Anesthesia Record Keeping by Voice Recognition System.- Bar Code System Applied to Operation Center of University Hospital.- Medical Data Collection — The Human Interface Bar Code Entry, Hand Held Terminals.- Visibility of the Luminous Type Numerical Display Devices Installed the Medical Diagnostic Instruments Influenced by the Irradiation Illuminance.- A Compact TV Screen, a New Monitoring Device of Operative Field.- Quality Assurance.- Minimum Anaesthetic Peroperative Audit Dataset.- Computerized Quality Assurance Assessment of Obstetric Anesthesia Care: New Outcome Indicators.- Quality Assurance in Anesthesia Practice from the View Point of Personal Workload with Variability.- Patient Monitoring (Circulation).- Validity of Continuous Cardiac Output Measured by a Doppler Pulmonary Artery Catheter Versus Thermodilution, and Effect of Distal Angle on the Variance Between Methods.- Noninvasive Continuous Blood Pressure Measurement with the Cortronic APM 770™.- Intraoperative Myocardial Ischemia Detected by Multiple ECG Leads.- Continuous Thermographic Determination of Myocardial Ischemic Area in Dogs.- New Approach to Central Venous Pressure Monitoring.- Pressure Pulse Transmission Ratio (PPTR) of Inferior Vena Cava and the Blood Volume Status.- Online Analysis of Cardiovascular Control Factors by Power Spectral Analysis on the Heart Rate Variability during Anesthesia.- Continuous Evaluating System of Cardiac Output in Patients with Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumping.- Continuous Pulse Contour Cardiac Output during Major Abdominal Vascular Surgery.- Calculation of Pulmonary Capillary Pressure from Pulmonary Artery and Venous Wedge Pressures in Children.- Clinical Application of CCOM — Report of Post Op. Bleeding Case.- Continuous Cardiac Output Monitoring System Applying Fick’s Principle.- Continuous, On-Line, Real-Time Spectral Analysis of Heart Rate Variations during Anesthesia.- Patient Monitoring (Respiration).- End-Tidal PCO2: A Clinical Noninvasive Cardiac Output Monitor.- Ventilator Work Ratio: A Guide to the Adequacy of Weaning.- Measurement of Respiratory Work in the Breath by Breath Technique on the Continuous Respiratory Monitoring System in ICU.- Measurement of Lung Mechanics in Mechanically Ventilated Infants.- Respiratory Loop Analysis Using the Respiratory Inductance Plethysmography in Infants and Children.- Patient Monitoring (Oxygen metabolism).- Clinical Evaluation of Continuous Metabolic Monitoring in ICU.- Continuous Monitoring of Oxygen Delivery & Consumption.- The Precision of Oxygen Consumption and Delivery in a Computer Integrated Fick Based Monitoring System.- Simultaneous Measurements of SvO2 and SjO2 during Major Cardiac Surgeries.- Non-Invasive Monitoring of the Total Body Oxygen Uptake and Carbon Dioxide Production during Anesthesia.- Patient Monitoring (Neuromuscular junction).- A System for On-Line Analysis of Neuromuscular Blockade during Anesthesia by Use of a Personal Computer.- Patient Monitoring (Coagulation).- Problems Associated with Coagulation Monitoring during Cardiovascular Surgery.- Use of the Coagulation Monitor 512 for Reversal of Heparin-Induced Anticoagulation and the Effect of Fresh Frozen Plasma.- Patient Monitoring (Body temperature).- Evaluation of a New, Improved Deep Body Thermometry System.- Transesophageal Echocardiography.- Another Application of Transesophageal Echocardiography — Aortic Annulus Measurement.- Verification of the Tip Position of Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Catheter by Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography.- Implications of Transesophageal Echocardiography as a Monitoring Device during Cardiac Anesthesia.- Pulse Oximetry.- Pulse Oximetry.- Comparison of Hypoxemia during One Lung Anesthesia with or without Pulse Oximeter.- An Effect of Unstable Hemoglobin Köln on Oximetry.- The Influence of Hematocrit and Blood Flow Conditions on Pulse Oximetry Accuracy.- Electroencephalography.- The Efficacy of Aperiodic Analysis of the Electroencephalogram (EEG) during Anesthesia.- The Lifescan™ EEG Monitor for Detection of Cerebral Ischemia in Carotid Endarterectomy: Case Reports, Prospective Study of Comparison Between Lifescan™ and Somatosensory Evoked Potential (SEP).- Intra-Operative EEG Monitoring: Monitoring of Background Rhythm and Paroxysmal Activity.- Evoked Potential.- Knowledge-Based Automatic Flash Evoked Potential Recognition System.- Automated Flash Visual Evoked Potential Monitoring: Comparison with Intracranial Pressure.- Gastrointestinal Tissue pH Monitoring.- New Objetives in the Resuscitation of the Critically III.- Studies on Prediction and Prevention of Stress Ulcer Using Tonometry, Reflectance Spectrophotometry and Oxygenated Perfluorochemicals.- Near Infrared Spectroscopy.- Experimental Study of Noninvasive Tissue Oxygenation Monitoring with Near-Infrared Spectroscopy.- Noninvasive Monitoring of Tissue Oxygenation by Near Infrared Spectroscopy.- Gas Analyzer.- A Case Study of Characterization and Continuous Monitoring of Trace Odorants in the Shinshu University School of Medicine Hospital ICU Room Air.- Simultaneous Measurement of 5 Anesthetic and 3 Respiratory Gases with Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer and Simple Technique of Calibration.- Miscellaneous.- A Request for Native English Speakers from Non-Natives.- Development and Application of Apple II Microcomputer System in Anesthesia.- Intraoperative Assessment of the Corrective Surgery of Tetralogy of Fallot.- Human Factors Affecting the Accuracy of Hand-Written Arterial Pressure Record.- An Assessment of Frequency Characteristics of the Fluid-Filled Catheter-Manometer System.- Multiple Monitors of Hemodynamics and Oxygenation during High Dose Thiopental.- A Ventilator to Create a Ventilatory Pattern Which Harmonizes with a Patient.- Estimation for Maximum Dosage of Lidocaine in Interpleural Block.- The Application of SALS (Statistical Analysis with the Least Square) to Michaelis-Menten Pharmacokinetics of Phenytoin.- Comments.- Author Index.