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  • Special section: Analysis of requirements for a medical device – the computer-assisted resuscitation algorithm (CARA) experience
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The computer-assisted resuscitation algorithm (CARA) is the software component of an automatic infusion pump system being designed by US Army’s Walter Reed Institute of Research (WRAIR) to be used in the battlefields of tomorrow. Such medical devices are safety critical, and their use needs to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – a process on which formal methods can have a great impact. In this special section, six papers on the analysis of CARA’s requirements are presented. In the rest of this introduction, we present the framework and summary of results from those papers.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27615, USA

    S. Purushothaman Iyer

  2. Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA

    David Hislop

  3. Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, MD 20857, USA

    Paul L. Jones

  4. Department of Resuscitative Medicine, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA

    Jaime Lee, Frederick Pearce &  Stephen Van Albert

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  1. S. Purushothaman Iyer
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Correspondence to S. Purushothaman Iyer.

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Iyer, S., Hislop, D., Jones, P. et al. Introductory paper. STTT 5, 299–300 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10009-003-0131-8

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