title: Microprocessor systems for self-control of vital bodily functions.
abstract: This article presents a fundamentally novel approach to an urgent medico-social problem of providing the timely medical care. To maintain people's health and life in their everyday activities, a new concept of the medical instrument-making industry was put forward. This concept was developed in terms of the theory of functional systems, which revealed the universal rules of self-regulation of bodily functions. The practical realization of the above-mentioned concept involved the construction, patenting, and production of a number of original devices capable of warning the patient about disorders in basic bodily functions. These devices included a Heart Protection System, a Stress Doser, a Physiological Clock, a Ration Controller, and a Mother-Fetus Controller. They can all be regarded as informational household microprocessor-based instruments of the 21st century.
authors.affiliation: Department of Normal Physiology, I. M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy.
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Yumatov
mesh_terms: D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation; D004435:Eating; D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus / Q000503:physiopathology; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008838:Microcomputers; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011247:Pregnancy; D012648:Self Care / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control