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To develop national monitor computer systems (MCS) for intensive cardiological care units, which should be reliable, easy-to-use, and cheaper than their foreign analogues is a pressing scientific and practical problem for Russian medical instrument making. The paper presents the results of development of and clinical experience with MCS at the intensive cardiological care unit of the Republican Clinical Cardiology Dispensary in the Republic of Udmurtia (Izhevsk).

The object of computerization is practical medical technology which is regarded as a complex of methodological and instrumental support for maintaining a physician-patient dialogue. The methodological support remain to be a prerogative of medicine and, consequently, relatively conservative. The instrumental support (as an aid for the methodological one) permits a constant extension of its stores. That is why the present paper considers the computerization of medical technologies in the context of extension of instrumental support. The replacement of paper technology in medicine by computerized one should primarily increase the level and quality of obtaining information on the patient and create high-levelled computerized systems: diagnostic monitoring, reference, expert ones. The creation of automatic working places for specialists of therapeutical-and-prophylactic institutions (TPI), their incorporation into the local computer systems of functional departments form an instrumental basis for informatization of the whole TPI. A scheme of the computer system of a resuscitation and intensive care is given as an example.