Abbreviations


ASCII		American Standard Code for Information Interchange
CO		Cardiac Output
CS		Code Segment Register
CVP		Central Venous Pressure
DI		Destination Index Register
DMA		Direct Memory Access
DS		Data Segment Register
ECG		Electrocardiogram
ES		Extra Segment Register
HP		Hewlett-Packard Ltd
HR		Heart Rate
IBM		International Business Machines
I/O		Input/Output
ISD		Instrument Status Data
ISA		Industry Standard Architecture
ITU		Intensive Therapy Unit
MCC		Magnitude Conversion Code
ms		Milliseconds
MS-DOS		Microsoft Disk Operating System
PC		Personal Computer
PCWP		Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure
PSD		Parameter Support Data
PVD		Parameter Value Data
SaO2		Oxygen saturation (%)
SCC		System Communication Controller
SDN		Serial Distribution Network
SI		Source Index Register
SMCB		Shared Memory Control Block