A vital sign monitoring system for a pediatric intensive care unit

Author

Kairouz, J. ; Lam, A. ; Malowany, A.S. ; Carnevale, F.A. ; Gottesman, R.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

fYear

1994

fDate

10-12 Jun 1994

Firstpage

217

Lastpage

222

Abstract

A vital sign monitoring system was developed for the Patient Data Management System (PDMS) of the Pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) at the Montreal Children´s Hospital. Fourteen bedside monitors were linked via a local area network (LAN) to a personal computer acting as a medical, nursing and administrative decision support tool. This paper discusses the implementation of the Expert Monitoring System (EMS) module of the PDMS and some evaluation results for the expert system

Keywords

computerised monitoring; decision support systems; local area networks; medical administrative data processing; medical expert systems; microcomputer applications; patient diagnosis; patient monitoring; Expert Monitoring System; LAN; Patient Data Management System; administrative decision support tool; bedside monitors; expert system; local area network; pediatric intensive care unit; personal computer; vital sign monitoring system; Biomedical monitoring; Computer displays; Computerized monitoring; Hospitals; Local area networks; Medical expert systems; Medical services; Microcomputers; Patient monitoring; Pediatrics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems, 1994., Proceedings 1994 IEEE Seventh Symposium on

Conference_Location

Winston-Salem, NC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6256-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.1994.316015

Filename

316015