Abstract
Hospital emergency units are submitted to a continuous intensive and polyvalent practice of medicine. In addition to the few experienced physicians, the medical staff is often made up of young and unskilled students and residents. The ability to reach at any time a wide and flexible knowledge is of the utmost importance to improve the quality of care given to patients and to perfect bedside teaching. The purpose of this work was to present a computerized system, a kind of shell, using, in combination, artificial intelligence and hypertext/hypermedia tools. A modular architecture is presented integrating two entities: an illustrated encyclopedic hypertext network and several expert modules based on production rules concerning well-limited fields of medicine (basic clinical problem-solving, metabolic and acid-base disorders). An interface using the World Wide Web (WWW) will soon be proposed.
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