AN IBM-AT BASED MONITORING-SYSTEM WITH TOUCHSCREEN INPUT

An IBM AT monitoring system is the current version of a series of monitoring system developments at Vanderbilt University. This system and its predecessors have been used in over 800 cases to date. Within the past year, this system has been upgraded with a new serial communications board and with touchscreen input. The new communications board has allowed improved communication with serial devices in the operating room, and will allow for additional devices to be added. The most dramatic improvement in the system has come from the addition of touchscreen input. Our present use of this feature has dramatically improved a casual users ability to input data into the computer system, extensions are possible to entirely get rid of the necessity of any keyboard input of data to the system under normal operations. © 1990 Kluwer Academic Publishers.