State of the Art Technology in Anesthesia and Intensive Care: Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Computing in Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Hamamatsu City, Japan, 18-21 March 1998

Author: Kazuyuki Ikeda
Published: December 1998
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
ISBN: 0444500081
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 350

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Table of Contents
Preface
The role of technologic advances in promoting anesthesia patient safety 3
The role of technology advances in promoting anesthesia patient safety: present status of Japan 11
Anesthesia in the millennium 19
Technology and economy in modern medicine 25
Some quality assurance tools for anaesthesia 29
The statistical analysis of quality improvement system at Hamamatsu University School of Medicine for 5 years 35
Monitoring methodologies for thermoregulatory studies 45
Monitoring coagulation 55
Lithium dilution cardiac output measurement a brief review 61
Arterial thermodilution for the measurement of continuous cardiac output and intrathoracic blood volume 67
Continuous and noninvasive hemodynamic profile monitoring including aortic blood flow, systolic time intervals and PetCO[subscript 2] measurements 75
Dye densitometry using pulse photometry principle 87
Clinical application of the ultrasound velocity dilution method for cardiac output (CO) measurement in the absence of arteriovenous circuit in ICU patients 93
CCO/SVO2: birth of the new gold standard 97
Auditory evoked potentials for closed-loop anaesthesia (CLAN) 105
Closed-loop control of anaesthetic drug delivery as research tool 113
Bispectral index and propofol [plus or minus] ketamine anesthesia 123
The development and future of target-controlled infusions 131
TCI remifentanil - implications for intra- and postoperative use 141
Target control infusion: infusion for target effect site concentration 145
A computer-assisted system for total intravenous anesthesia (CAS-TIVA): man-machine interface and clinical practice 155
On-line simulation of blood propofol concentration based on delivered dose via pump 163
Simulators in anesthesia 171
Integrating realistic simulation into educational programs: a Canadian perspective 175
The Sophus anesthesia simulator 183
Increasing reality in simulating intravenous anesthesia on the full-scale simulator 187
Anesthesia simulator - simulator training for medical students 193
Application of artificial neural networks in anesthesiology 201
Development of a clinical capnography analysis system: a single-signal analysis approach 215
Expert alarm system to predict critical hypotension before serious events 221
New Internet technology: HTML tools, Java, teleconferencing, and streaming multimedia 229
Anesthesia resources on the Internet 235
Drawing anaesthesia communities together - with the Internet 239
Intranet: its implementation in operating rooms 241
Web sites and mailing lists in Japan for anesthesia and intensive care in 1998 249
Can a computer help the critically ill patient? 255
Aspect of human ergonomics for anesthesia information systems fitting to the anesthesia workstation 261
Electronic anesthesia record keeping - part of a perioperative patient information system 271
Datex AS/3 record keeping - using the adu gas control and vaporising principles 275
Control of fentanyl plasma levels for postoperative pain relief 285
Current postoperative pain control in Japan and the use of portable disposable infusors 291
High-flow-closed circuit: feed back controlled inhalation anesthesia: the road to "physiological" artificial ventilation 309
A new concept in anaesthesia machines 321
Index of authors 327
Subject index 329

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