Authors:
L. D. Brown, University of South Alabama Medical Center, Mobile Alabama Published:
Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation 25th Annual
Meeting and Exposition 1990, p.17.
Steven M. Zimmerman, Ph.D., Professor of Quality and Systems Management University of South Alabama
Shannon Brown, University of South Alabama Medical Center, Mobile, AL
Significance:
This paper demonstrated that medical instrumentation could be interfaced to personal computers and that the computers could analze the data, apply statistical quality control procedures to the data, and display the data in real-time statistical process control charts.
These charts provide a better understanding of patient stability. The advantages are:
2) The data may be analyzed in real-time or concurrently with its collection.
(2) Invasive and non-invasive blood pressure
(3) Skin temperature
(4) Arterial oxygen saturation
(5) Pulse pressure
