Digitised ICP over three decades.
I describe a personal journey of experience in applying computer technology to the intracranial pressure signal for the 30 years from 1968 to 1998. After experimenting with off-line applications, I used a desk-top computer to automate infusion tests for the measurement of outflow resistance. For 10 years from 1975, we programmed a minicomputer to control ICP automatically with mannitol infusion and integrate nursing data from a dedicated bedside terminal. In 1986, we were introduced to and subsequently used PC software, which was developed in Warsaw. I briefly review the trends in the applications of computers during that period as recorded in the first ten ICP conference books.
Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK. david.price@doctors.org.uk
David J
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Price
D003226:Congresses as Topic; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007427:Intracranial Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods*; D009862:Online Systems / Q000266:history; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted