Title :
VAD: ventilation management in the ICU
Author :
MacGill, I.F. ; Cade, J.F. ; Siganporia, R. ; Packer, J.S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., ACT, Australia
Abstract :
VAD (ventilation advisor), an expert system intended to assist in the management of mechanical ventilation for critically ill patients, is discussed. The system continuously interprets patient data collected from standard intensive care unit (ICU) equipment to offer staff advice on the patient´s status, unexpected ventilation events, and the appropriateness of current ventilator therapy. VAD´s encoded medical expertise is provided by clinical and nursing specialists in intensive care. It has been implemented as a custom expert tool written in C, and run in real time on an IBM-AT-compatible computer. VAD is currently being tuned and evaluated in closely regulated clinical trials within the ICU
Keywords :
expert systems; medical computing; patient treatment; pneumodynamics; C program; IBM-AT-compatible computer; VAD; critically ill patients; custom expert tool; intensive care unit; mechanical ventilation management; patient data interpretation; patient´s status; staff advice; unexpected ventilation events; ventilator therapy appropriateness; Clinical trials; Diagnostic expert systems; Hospitals; Knowledge management; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical expert systems; Medical services; Medical treatment; Real time systems; Ventilation;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Based Medical Systems, 1990., Proceedings of Third Annual IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Chapel Hill, NC
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-9040-2
DOI :
10.1109/CBMSYS.1990.109418
