January 9, 1997

St. Louis Children's Hospital PICU Neurosurgery Clinical Pathways

The following files represent the Neurosurgery Clinical Pathways developed at
St. Louis Children's Hospital for the care of postoperative or posttraumatic
neurosurgery patients in the PICU. 

The files described below are compressed.

NSurgery.zip		a zipped file for PC/Windows users
NSurgery.sit    	a stuffit archive for Macintosh users

Details regarding downloading options can be found in the file
PedsCCM_pathways_readme.txt

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Note the following suffix translations:

	.doc	Word 6.0 for Windows 95
	.rtf	Interchange format (cross platform, many word processors)
	.mcw	Word for Macintosh 5.1
	
	
Document name	Description		

picu-n-s.xxx	Basic pathway	
elect-ve.xxx	Plug-in: ventriculostomy/electrolyte issues
electrol.xxx	Plug-in: electrolyte issues
intracra.xxx	Plug-in: intracranial hypertension module
mech-ven.xxx	Plug-in: mechanically ventilated patients
ventricu.xxx	Plug-in: ventriculostomy patients

These documents are provided "as is" with no implications or guarantees of
clinical value in other institutions. St. Louis Children's Hospital assumes no
liability regarding their use. These represent the proprietary intellectual
property of St. Louis Children's Hospital and acknowledgement of their source
is indicated if utilized. These files are offered free of charge and may be
distributed for non-commerical use, provided this disclaimer is included. No
support or instructions for their use can be offered at this time.

Uploaded by:
Barry P. Markovitz, MD
email: markovitz@pedsccm.org

Software requirements: documents available in Word for Windows 95, Interchange
File Format (rtf), and Word 5.1 for Macintosh; these should be interpretable by
recent versions of Word or WordPerfect for Mac or Windows