Articles: intensive-care-units.
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A 12-bed medical-surgical intensive care unit in a provincial, university-affiliated teaching hospital had 810 admissions during an 18-month period. Most patients were admitted under the care of a family physician. ⋯ Strong emphasis on selection of patients with potentially reversible disease, prompted in part by the limited facilities, may have played a role in yielding such favourable statistics. It is possible to retain participation of all members of the health care team during the brief phase of severe illness requiring intensive care.
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Acta Anaesthesiol Belg · Jan 1975
First experiences with a documentation system via display terminals.
A documentation and monitoring system has been developed by members of the Department of Anesthesiology and the Department of Medical Data Processing of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen. It is conceived in such a way that it should cover all the needs of the department, which is to say that every anesthesia done by a staff member should be documented, supervised and assisted by the computer service. ⋯ They display both alphanumerics and graphics in four different colors and modes. Information is entered in the system via so-called masks, which contain a larger section of information, and by on-line data recording.