Books in the Computers in Biology and Medicine series

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.

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 . . . .