WEANPRO

WEANPRO, WEANing PROtocol, assists respiratory therapists and nurses in weaning post-operative cardiovascular patients from mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit. The knowledge contained in WEANPRO is represented by rules and is implemented in M.1 by Teknowledge, Inc.

WEANPRO will run on any IBM-compatible microcomputer. Test results of the system revealed that it significantly decreases the number of arterial blood gas analyses needed to wean patients from total dependence on mechanical ventilation to independent breathing using a T-piece.

Tong, David A., Weaning patients from mechanical ventilation. A knowledge based system approach, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol.35, no.4, pp,267-278, Aug. 1991

(wean : 젖(인공호흡기)을 떼다,~에서 떼어놓다)