The Application of Computers to the Measurement Analysis and Treatment of Patients Following Cardiac Surgical Procedures

摘要

For the past ten years we have been using computer based systems in the clinical care of 9000 patients during the early hours following open intracardiac operations. Automated techniques have been applied to measurement, analysis, therapy, and record keeping functions in the Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care Unit (CICU) at the University of Alabama Hospital.