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UTILIZATION OF HAND-HELD PROGRAMMABLE CALCULATORS FOR RAPID BEDSIDE COMPUTATION OF PHYSIOLOGIC-PHARMACOLOGIC
Daniel A. Holub1, John M. Fuqua, Stephen R. Igo
1Cardiovascular Surgical Research Laboratories of the Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas.
Cardiovascular Diseases
|September 1, 1978
Abstract:
This study describes five programs that may be used on compact, low-cost programmable calculators with adequate memory and sufficient numbers of program steps to compute cardiorespiratory variables. These short programs are especially useful in the operating room and at the bedside.
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