An Action and Change Formalism for Building Intensive Care Expert Systems
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In this paper we present an Expert System Shell [9] which has been already proved to be suitable for the medical domain [10, 5]. Particularly, we focus on the features of its underlaying actions-based formalism, which make it specially applicable to the Intensive Care domain. The critical nature of the processes that take place in an Intensive Care Unit makes indispensable that any system functioning in this environment is able to properly process a considerable amount of data in real time in order to provide decision making support, diagnosis and therapy advice, or automatic monitorization according to the evolution of the patient.
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