Digital Computers in Anaesthesia

Computers in anaesthesia.

The application of computers to anaesthesia has increased steadily in recent years. This trend will likely accelerate as advances in computer technology produce increasingly powerful computer systems that continue to decline in cost. The growing role of the computer makes it reasonable to expect some knowledge of its capability as part of the training of any anaesthetist.l Few professional area...

The future of computers in anaesthesia.

ANAvSVrmSlA IS EFFECWlVE, safe-and complicated. The introduction of computers would promise to make it more complicated; can they make it safer or more effective? Not today perhaps, but the increasing complexity of surgical procedures is requiring anaesthetists to measure more and more variables, handle more and more information, control more and more the patient's physiological status, and the...

Asynchronous Signals in Digital Computers

Systems Simulation with Digital Computers

A machine-independent examination of the associated programming problem i s conducted and illustrated by means of a n example. Finally, the nature and application of simulation languages are noted. By system, we have in mind the meaning accorded by Webster, " a set of objects united by some form of regular interaction or interdependence. " Change in a system is regarded as change in the propert...

The History of Digital Computers

This account describes the history of the development of digital computers, from the work of Charles Babbage to the earliest electronic stored program computers, It has been prepared for Volume 3 of " l'Histoire Générale des Techniques, " and is in the main based on the introductory text written by the author for the book " The Origins of Digital Computers: Selected Papers " (Springer Verlag, 1...