Medical Applications of Microcomputers

Medical Applications of Microcomputers deals with microcomputer applications in a wide area of clinical medicine. Recent developments are discussed in several clinical specialties including medicine, surgery, urology, anaesthesia and oncology. Topics include the storage of analysis of clinical audit data, the display of processing of data from direct physiological measurements and computers in control of therapy. The authors draw on their practical experience and knowledge of specific areas to which they have applied modern microcomputer techniques and give detailed descriptions of the means by which the problems that may be encountered may be overcome. Those wishing to implement their own computer systems will find this book a useful further source of ideas and techniques which add to those described in the earlier volume "Microcomputers in Medicine" by the same editors.

The scope of microcomputer applications in medicine has extended beyond highly technical uses in bioengineering and now reaches into every clinical speciality. The purpose of this book is to bring together the experience of people with diverse clinical interests who have found a role for the microcomputer in their work. Each chapter deals with a different clinical problem, suggests a solution and then discusses how to implement the solution using microcomputer technology. This book is intended to demonstrate the current uses of microcomputers in clinical practice to medical and health care professionals at all levels with a range of applications covering a wide base of clinical disciplines. The topics cover data handling, computer-aided learning, decision support and special techniques.