After reading this chapter, you should be able to answer these questions 1. What is patient
monitoring, and why is it used? 2. What patient parameters do bedside physiological …

Although today's advanced biomedical technology provides unsurpassed power in
diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment, interpretation of vast streams of information generated …

Healthcare costs in the US are approximately 15% of GNP and are anticipated to reach 17%
of GNP in the near future. Management of chronic diseases via technology based ubiquitous …

Say “intensive care monitoring,” and the picture that pops into most physicians' minds
involves blood-pressure or ECG monitoring. These measurements were certainly the focus …

As its name implies, this book deals with clinical information systems. The clinical
information system (or CIS) is an automated system with a long term database containing …

Rapid interpretation of physiological time-series data and accurate assessment of patient
state are crucial to patient monitoring in critical care. Algorithms that use artificial intelligence …

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 …

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 …

There is a vast array of technical data that is continuously generated within the intensive
care unit environment. In addition to physiological monitors, there is information being …

There is a broad consensus that 21st century health care will require intensive use of
information technology to acquire and analyze data and then manage and disseminate …