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participated during the summer and
part time during the school year.
Most of the DAME system’s components
were readily available commercial
products, although some circuit
boards and input/output interface
devices were designed internally
and built to our specifications. Ten
DAME systems were deployed with
the opening of the new surgical suite
in August of 1980. On the right is an
actual record created using the system.
Notice how similar it is to the
current handwritten and computergenerated
records of today.
Although DAME served as a
model for the subsequent “Arkive”
system, in late 1983, a series of
Anesthesia record printed by DAME data manager.
events led to its abandonment.
Naturally then, the Arkive system
served as a model for the Drager Saturn, and other systems as
well. The latter systems copied many of their ideas from the
Arkive, which had, as a matter of course, gotten many of its ideas
from DAME. In a very real sense, DAME was the grandfather of
all the anesthesia information systems available today.
We would like to think that the program at Duke has contributed
to the development of present commercial products and
thereby enhanced the quality of patient care.
You may read more about the DAME system in the Journal of Clinical
Monitoring, Vol. 1, No.1, January 1985. From excerpts of the article, “Two
Computer-Based Anesthetic Monitors: The Duke Automatic Monitoring
Equipment (DAME) System and the Microdame,” by Frank E. Block Jr.,
MD; Larry W. Burton, PhD; Marc D. Rafal, PhD; Karen Burton; Carolyn
Newey, BSEE; Larry Dowell; Fritz F. Klein, PhD; David A. Davis, MD; and
Merel H. Harmel, MD.
Frank Block, Jr., MD, is currently
professor in the Department
of Anesthesiology at the University
of Arkansas for Medical Sciences,
College of Medicine, Little Rock,
Arkansas.
UAMC
4301 W. Markham St., Slot 515
Little Rock, AR 72212
Office: (501) 686-6672
E-mail: blockfranke@uams.edu
Larry Dowell is manager of
information systems in the
Department of Anesthesiology. He
has been with the department for 30
years.
439 Duke South Hospital
DUMC Box 3094
Durham, NC 27710
Office: (919) 684-2835
E-mail: dowel001@mc.duke.edu
Rosemary Cumbie is currently
a consultant for Alumni Affairs in the
department. She also serves as
Alumni Editor. She was employed by
Duke for 25 years.
227 Monticello Avenue
Durham, NC 27707
Home: (919) 489-7507
E-mail: rcumbie@nc.rr.com