Bücher der Reihe Computers in Biology and Medicine

The third international symposium on Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine was held in Norwalk Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine in June 1981. My special thanks to Mr. Norman Brady, President of the Norwalk Hospital, for his generous hospitality and his untiring assistance during the three days of the symposium.

It seems particularly appropriate that this pioneering collection of papers should be dedicated to Donald Sholl since those of us who count, measure, and reconstruct elements of the neural en~emble are all very much in his debt.

In studying physiological systems bioscientists are continually faced with the problem of providing descriptions of cause-effect relationships.

CONTENTS Analog Computation for Evaluation of Ventilators . . . . Weitzner Ventilator Surveillance - Routine Application and Quality Control . . . . . Mikula Automated Estimation of Respiratory Dead Space: 27 Tidal Volume Ratio . . . .

This first volume is but an introduction to the growing use of computer-based systems in health-science education. A short look into the future indicates that educational system design will be dominated by a concept which, for want of a better term, we may call an "information system."