Instrumentación virtual, control y adquisición de datos para unidades de cuidados intensivos

Abstract

The disposition of tools of the industrial Automation, like SCADA (Supervision Control and Data acquisition), in the hospital services is a tendency, that optimizes the processes and services of the health; these tools, provide resources with support, validating, facilitating and making agile the processes, as much of diagnosis (monitoring), as of specialized intervention (control) and legal responsibilities (reports). This document presents/displays advances in the technological development of an application, where techniques oriented to the control, the communications, the virtual and conventional instrumentation take advantage of, the management and information processing, among others; proposing a system of monitoring, registry and control, reliable and flexible, improving the UCIN (Units of Intensive Cares Neonatal), as well as other processes in the clinical atmosphere. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.