Generalidades de un Sistema de Monitorización Informático para Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos

the application of information and communication technologies in the health sector gains a greater importance every day. general requisites to develop a computer system to perform the monitoring of critically-ill patients throughout the different services of intensive care were considered; though it was firstly designed to the intensive care units. this paper is part of a branch project conducted by the national direction of medical emergencies belonging to cuban ministry of public health, and with the participation of specialists in emergency and intensive medical care all over the country. the system is implemented by the computer specialists of the health system in pinar del rio, accomplishing the rules that were established by the national direction of informatics and softel enterprise. this monitoring system will ease the capture, management, treatment and storage of the generated information to each of the patients, to integrate all the information recorded in the intensive care service. medical and nursing assessments are emphasized, together with the treatment prescriptions and the clinical evaluation of the patients, which will allow a most effective therapeutic-decision-making. the monitoring system will be modular, easy to operate, intuitive and implemented by means of free-software.