Computer system and method for suggesting treatments for physical trauma

Patent 4839822 Issued on June 13, 1989. Estimated Expiration Date:

August 13, 2007. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

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501 Synthes

Application

No. 07/085511 filed on 08/13/1987

US Classes:

706/45, KNOWLEDGE PROCESSING SYSTEM128/924, Using artificial intelligence706/11, HAVING PARTICULAR USER INTERFACE706/47, Ruled-based reasoning system706/924Medical

Examiners

Primary: Ruggiero, Joseph

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Davis Hoxie Faithfull & Hapgood

International Classes

G06F 19/00 (20060101)
A61B 10/00 (20060101)

Abstract

An expert system which provides one or more suggested treatments for a patient with physical trauma is disclosed. The system includes a computing device having a memory, a plurality of data bases in the memory, an application program and an inference engine program. The data bases include graphical illustrations of different types of physical trauma, and a knowledge base which contains treatment information. The application program is executed in the computing device and interactively displays a series of screens including at least some of the graphical illustrations, to elicit responses from the user concerning the specific types of physical trauma and specific characteristics of the patient. The inference engine program, which is also executed in the computing device, uses the knowledge base and information related to the responses elicited from the user, for selecting one or more suggested treatments. The application program presents the suggested treatments to the user after execution of the inference engine program.

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