Real-time expert system for advising anesthesiologists in the cardiac operating room.

This paper describes the initial work towards building a distributed real-time expert system for advising anesthesiologists in the cardiac operating room. The goal of this project is to build a vigilant system that contains knowledge relevant to the practice of cardiac anesthesiology. The system is being designed to use this knowledge in conjunction with continuous automated patient data acquisition in order to provide clinically useful differential diagnoses and treatment recommendations in real time.