title: [Clinical use of a minicomputer in heart surgery intensive care units].
abstract: The Authors present three respiratory parameters useful to estimate the respiratory and hemodynamic conditions of a cardiac patients before these turn into obvious pathological clinical pictures. The parameters are: alveolar-arterial oxygen difference, respiratory index and arterial-venous pulmonary shunts. The sophisticated mathematic calculations necessary to calculate and to elaborate such data are made, in few seconds, by a minicomputer which is very easy to work with. A clinical example in which the above-mentioned data have been employed helps to demonstrate their extreme usefulness.
mesh_terms: D001784:Blood Gas Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D003201:Computers; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008433:Mathematics; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011653:Pulmonary Diffusing Capacity; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000517:prevention & control
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen
vernacular_title: Impiego clinico di un microcalcolatore in unitá' di terapia intensiva cardiochirurgica.