Performance of an automated electronic acute lung injury screening system in intensive care unit patients.

Objective: Lung protective ventilation reduces mortality in patients with acute lung injury, but underrecognition of acute lung injury has limited its use. We recently validated an automated electronic acute lung injury surveillance system in patients with major trauma in a single intensive care unit. In this study, we assessed the system's performance as a prospective acute lung injury screening tool in a diverse population of intensive care unit patients.

Validation study of an automated electronic acute lung injury screening tool.

OBJECTIVE The authors designed an automated electronic system that incorporates data from multiple hospital information systems to screen for acute lung injury (ALI) in mechanically ventilated patients. The authors evaluated the accuracy of this system in diagnosing ALI in a cohort of patients with major trauma, but excluding patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). DESIGN Single-center validation study.

Prototype medical image management system (MIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania: software design considerations. 1987.

A 10 Mbits/second fiber-optic network for the transmission of chest x-ray images has been designed and implemented at our Hospital. Images are acquired with a high-resolution laser scanner. The viewing consoles display images at spatial resolutions of either 512 square or 1024 square.

Integrating postprocessed functional MR images with picture archiving and communication systems.

We describe a method of converting postprocessed functional MR images to the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard and sending these DICOM images directly into any picture archiving and communication system (PACS) or stand-alone DICOM database. This method provides system-wide access and archiving of previously research-only applications, it permits the clinical review of postprocessed data on DICOM-compliant workstations, and it can be used to move functional MR data onto intraoperative neuronavigational workstations for surgical guidance. The procedure can be used with any MR postprocessed dataset, and it can be extended to other imaging modalities.