[Automation of ambulatory Doppler color echocardiography using a relational data base in a personal computer]

Office automation in echocardiography is necessary linked to the need of speeding up the reporting which is generally done, to date, in a subsequent phase and it is time consuming With the present work we suggest a software made with the dBASE III Plus applied package, on a PS/2 IBM computer which makes it possible to quickly calculate the bodily surface and at the same time having instantaneous presentation of the normality ranges of the cardiac structures, of the myocardiac kinesis and the Doppler-color appraisal of valvular flows. The speed of reporting is greatly increased and all the data taken make up a database standardized for future statistical elaborations, besides providing an electronic file of echocardiographical reports.