Using the Past to Inform the Future: How a Classic Respiratory Physiology Equation Informs Computer-Based Simulators and Clinical Decision Support Systems

Alon Geva^{1

2

3}, Dennis A Daniel^{1

3}, Alireza Akhondi-Asl^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Perioperative and Critical Care Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (PC-CORE), Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
² Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
³ Department of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Editorial

Alon Geva et al. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2024.

. 2024 May 1;25(5):466-468.

doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000003484. Epub 2024 May 2.

Alon Geva^{1

2

3}, Dennis A Daniel^{1

3}, Alireza Akhondi-Asl^{1

3}

¹ Perioperative and Critical Care Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (PC-CORE), Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
² Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
³ Department of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have disclosed that they do not have any potential conflicts of interest.

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