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PubMed1982

On assisting the anaesthetist. Reflections of an anaesthetic room nurse.

The author was born in Leipzig Germany in 1936. She first trained as a children's nurse in West Berlin and, after bringing up three children, qualified as a State Enrolled Nurse at Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge in 1976. She has held her present post as an anaesthetic room nurse in the Ear Nose and Throat operating theatre of Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge for 3 years. The paper analyses the task of the anaesthetic room nurse in supporting the anaesthetist both physically and psychologically.

Anesthesiology↗

PubMed1981

An interactive graphic database microcomputer for clinical control in data intensive therapies.

Experiments showed a small computer could improve access to large concentrations of clinical data in renal dialysis and transplantation and enhance the clinical feedback loop which controls substitute renal function. Interactive access adds a sub-loop which allows close adaptation to clinical use. Prototype software was transferred to an LSI-11 microcomputer with 20 Mbyte cartridge discs, multiple remote VDUs and video graphic displays and printer-plotter. Data capture is both manual and by automatic transfer from laboratory computers. Push-button interaction displays clusters of data, including computed functions, as graphs and tables on variable time scales. programmed scans generate data-base analyses. The system reconfigures for individual sites. The microcomputer version has run routinely for a year and proved a practical tool at acceptable cost. Down-time has been small but strongly resented by medical and nursing staff. The system can accommodate 750 patients, but has also been 'stretched' for an oncology laboratory and configured for other specialities.

Computers↗