Applications of a hand-held computer in critical care medicine.
Hand-held computers provide a reasonable alternative to desk-top computers in critical care units because of their size and affordability. The applications described include specific examples of software to perform hemodynamic calculations, intravenous flow rate calculations, and respiratory calculations. This software has been used for several years and has been found to be very useful.
D003201:Computers; D003422:Critical Care / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008838:Microcomputers; D012138:Respiratory Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation*