SmartCare™ -Automated clinical guidelines in critical care

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 110, Issue , 2004, Pages 745-749

  Mersmann, Stefan ^a   Dojat, Michel ^b  

^a Architecture of Drägerwerk AG and Co KGaA   (Germany)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; VENTILATION;

% REDUCTIONS; AUTOMATED CONTROL; BEST PRACTICES; CLINICAL GUIDELINE; CLINICAL STAFF; CLINICAL STUDY; CRITICAL CARE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; KNOWLEDGE BASED; MEDICAL DEVICES;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 85017343192     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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