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This article presents an architecture to support anaesthetists in decision making. During an operation, it is the task of the anaesthetist to create and maintain such physiological conditions that surgery can take place. To this end, physiological variables of the patient are measured. The anaesthetist interprets the measurements in combination with other observations about the patient (e.g. skin colour) to draw conclusions about the patients physiological condition. If necessary, action is taken to change the physiological condition. Physiological knowledge plays an important role in both the interpretation of observations and the choice of actions taken by the anaesthetist. A computer system that supports these tasks should therefore have physiological knowledge at its disposal.
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Rotterdam, E.P., de Vries Robbé, P.F., Zock, J.P. (1991). Integrated use of causal and algebraic physiological models to support anaesthetists in decision making. In: Stefanelli, M., Hasman, A., Fieschi, M., Talmon, J. (eds) AIME 91. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48650-0_17
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