Objective Medical Decision-making; Systems Approach in Acute Disease

Keynote papers.- Critical decision-making and simulation.- Fuzzy sets theory for medical decision-making.- Diagnosis.- Pre-operative assessment of 'risk'.- Evaluation of cardiorespiratory function during sleep in infants at risk for sudden infant death syndrome: a computer system for acquisition and analysis.- Evaluation of cardiac function in acute coronary disease by integration of computerized cardiovascular signals.- Evaluation of decision-making by humans and computers in acute abdominal and acute chest pain.- Results of the discussion around the subject "Diagnosis".- Monitoring.- The use of the auditory evoked response to measure graded effects of general anaesthetics.- EEG-analysis in monitoring anesthesia.- An individual microprocessor device for gas exchange monitoring during artificial ventilation.- Man-machine interaction in disease pattern classification.- A data acquisition and display system for improved medical pattern recognition.- Results of the discussion around the subject "Monitoring".- Therapy and control.- Diabetes management: insight from mathematical modelling.- Role of the artificial pancreas in the understanding of the mode of action of insulin.- Towards a generalized approach in clinical control systems.- Measurement and usefulness of flow, volume and airway pressure during mechanical ventilation.- Automatic control system of O2 and CO2 in artificial ventilation.- Model simulation for the prediction of haemodialysis.- Results of the discussion around the subject "Therapy and control".- Evaluation of criteria and procedures.- Human utility index of data used in diagnosis.- Evaluation of techniques for the diagnosis of upper G.I. tract bleeding.- Clinical importance of patterns in the courses of online recorded vital parameters.-Monitoring the respiratory effects of analgesic drugs in the post-operative period.- Automated heart-lung-machine and blood gas data logger.- Numerical simulation of a cardiopulmonary system under therapy, its utilization in computer aided instruction and training.- Results of the discussion around the subject "Evaluation of criteria and procedures".