Computers in Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine

Section I - Monitoring in the ICU.- Closing the Loop.- Computerized Multibed Respiratory Monitoring.- Criteria for Successful Use of Computers in Critical Care -- A Manufacturer's Perspective.- ICU Monitoring of Ventilation Distribution.- A Distributed Microprocessor Respiratory Intensive Care Monitoring System with Mass Spectrometer, Proximal Flowmeter, and Airway Pressure Transducer.- On Line Monitoring of Respiratory Values on a Respiratory Intensive Care Unit.- Use of a Microprocessor Controlled, Mass Spectrometer Based Monitoring System for Risk Management in a Community Hospital ICU.- Rapid Non-Invasive Determination of Cardiac Output at Rest by CO2 Rebreathing using a Computerized System: Application in Normal Adults with Cardiac Disease.- Transcutaneous O2 and CO2 Monitoring in the Adult.- Section II The USE of Computers in the Pulmonary Function Laboratory.- Accuracy of Commercially Available Computerized Spirometers.- The Application of the Sequential Moments of the Forced Expiratory Spirogram to an Exponential Model of the Spirogram.- Automated Pulmonary Analysis by an On Line Microcomputer.- Automatic Correction for the Effects of Changing Gas Viscosity in Pneumotachographic Measurements.- Clinical Assessment of Spirometric Data.- Computer Evaluation of Expiratory Gas Parameters and Alveolar to Arterial Differences in Clinical and Research Pulmonary Medicine.- Computing Circuit for Breath-by-Breath Ventilation.- History Dependence of Maximal Flow.- Immediate Responses to Lung Irritants Detected by Automated Measurements of Airway Resistance and Partial Flow-Volume Curves.- Lower Limits of Normal for Spirometric Reference Values.- Measurement of Specific Diffusing Capacity (DL/VA) in Critically Ill Patients.- A Microcomputer System for the Analysis of Spirograms.- On Line Pulmonary Testing Utilizing a Portable Microcomputer.- Pulmonary Fast Space Measurement from Expired PCO2: A Pulmonary Function Test Designed for Automation.- Signal Processing for Computerized Spirometry.- Spectral Analysis of Pulmonary Artery Pressure.- A Standard Artificial Lung for System Calibration in Physiological Gas Exchange Measurement.- The Measurement of Respiratory Impedance by the Forced Oscillation Method: Clinical Experiments and Their Interpretation.- Section III - Database Management.- A Microprocessor Based Data Management System in Operating Room and Intensive Care Unit.- Clinical Experience with a Mini Computer Based Data Management System in Surgical Intensive Care.- Clinical Relevant Data -- What and How Often?.- Effective Anesthesia Record Keeping Utilizing A Computerized Data Management System.- The Data Are Collected. What's Next?.- Utilization and Cost Effectiveness of Computerized Patient Data Management in the Multispecialty Intensive Care Unit.- Section IV - Miscellaneous Subjects.- A Microcomputer Based System for the Screening of Occupational Health Groups.- Gravity Dependence of Crackles.- Effect of the Medical Device Legislation on Automation in Medicine.- Rapid Lung Sound Amplitude Measurement by Automated Flow Gated Phonopheumography.- Implementation of an Integrated Critical Care Computer.- What Can We Measure?.