TY - JOUR
AU - Hrown, WA
AB - AJEBAK 51 (Pt. 3) 275-281 (1973) by D. G. LAMPARD, J. R. COLES AND W . A. HROWN (From the Department of Electrical Engineering, Mona.sh University, Clayton, Victoria.) Given at a Symposium on "Biological Control Systems" at the Regional Meeting, International Union of Physiological Sciences, Sydney, August, 1972. INTRODUCTION. The availability of small, but powerful, electronic digital computers makes possible eontrol systems in which several variables are simultaneously controlled. There are many situations in experimental physiology and in clinical medicine where it is desirable to be a!)Ie to coTitroI several biological variables, either maintaining them at constant values, arranging that they follow a prescril?ed time course, or forcing them to depend on each other in a prescribed way. In this pajK'r we have ajiplicd nmltivariable control techniques u.sing such a small electrouie digital computer to the problem of administering gaseous and volatile anaesthesia in eonjnnetion with artificial ventilation. The computer. The computer which was used for this project was desigued and built in the Electrical Engineering Department, and is an S-bit, 2K cort* machine with a ct)re cycle time of 5-3 /isec. An 8-bit word length has been fotmd to give sufficient accuracy for the control tasks involved, whilst 
TI - COMPUTER CONTROL OF RESPIRATION AND ANAESTHESIA
JF - Immunology & Cell Biology
DO - 10.1038/icb.1973.27
DA - 1973-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/computer-control-of-respiration-and-anaesthesia-RTo0VNtKL2
SP - 275
EP - 281
VL - 51
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -