1978 Volume 7 Issue 6 Pages 970-973
A micro-computer is introduced to predict the occurrence of the hypovolemic shock in the artificial dialysis. The prediction is based on the depression and depressing rate of the circulatory system, which are given by the intermittent measurement of the blood pressure with a sphygmomanometer. The micro-computer changes the measuring interval due to the depression index of the circulatory system and dispatches the alarm signal when it detects the critical state of the patient.
Three kinds of such systems have been subjected to the clinical tests in the sequence of updated versions to obtain the successful results.