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R M Gardner

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Medical informatics in the intensive care unit: state of the art 1991.

Intensive care medicine requires timely, accurate, and integrated patient records to provide the highest quality patient care. Computerized patient records offer the best method to achieve these needs. The expectations of society for medical progress through increased use of computers is growing. For optimal use of computers in the ICU there must be a harmonious collaboration between medical informaticists, physicians, nurses, therapists, and administrators. The future use of computers in ICU care will be evolutionary rather than revolutionary. We are on the frontier of some exciting times in the next decade as computers become commonplace in the clinical care process rather than an unusual event. This paper discusses the progress and challenges of computers in the ICU.

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Real time data acquisition: recommendations for the Medical Information Bus (MIB).

Care of the acutely ill patient requires rapid acquisition, recording and communications of data. In the modern hospital it is not unusual for a patient to be connected to several monitoring and recording devices simultaneously. Each of these devices is typically made by a different manufacturer who may specialize in one sort of measurement, for example, pulse oximetry. Most of the modern monitoring and recording devices are micro-processor based and have communication capabilities. Unfortunately, there is no operable standard communication technology available from all devices. In addition different clinical staff (physicians, nurses, or respiratory therapists) may be responsible for collecting data. As a result there is a need to develop methods, standards, and strategies for timely and automatic collection of data from these monitoring and recording devices. We report on more than 5 years of clinical experience of automated ICU data collection using a prototype of the Medical Information Bus (MIB).

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