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4.4.2 Designing Client‐Server Systems for the Intensive Care Unit: An Application of Performance‐Driven Design
Author(s) -
Zaleski John R.,
Binder Ernst,
Silliman Keith
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1998.tb00077.x
Subject(s) - computer science , intensive care unit , process (computing) , client–server model , work (physics) , database , server , medicine , operating system , intensive care medicine , engineering , mechanical engineering
ABSTRACT We present a method of computer system performance analysis. As an example of the method's utility, we apply it to the process of designing and modeling a database management system to aid physicians and staff in the process of monitoring and analyzing patient cardiovascular and respiratory data in a typical hospital intensive care unit (ICU). This example application is based on work in critical care data analysis performed by the first author as part of the Ph.D. dissertation requirement at the University of Pennsylvania. The critical data needs of ICU staff are analyzed and a client‐server based database processing system is presented which is robust enough to sustain the data recording needs of 20 patients within the ICU with sufficient bandwidth to permit concurrent data retrieval on patients.