Design of a therapeutic specialist for acute myocardial infarct

In this work we present the design proposal for a therapeutic specialist (T S) in the domain of the intensive coronary care unit (ICCU) for situations of acute myocardial infarct (AMI). This TS can be placed within a more gene ral framework of the intelligent supervision of patients interned in an ICC U, and it carries out two basic functions: 1) recommending to the physician that therapy should be administered according to the state and response of the treatment in progress; and 2) to continually monitor the evolution of the patient with the therapy in progress, advising the physician of necessa ry therapeutic modifications (associations with other drugs, suspension of treatment, etc.) in order to compensate for the evolution of the patient an d aid his recovery. Thus we present a specialist/agent architecture designe d to carry out both functions, which is based on the identification, design , and implementation of therapeutic tasks, on the explicit separation betwe en knowledge of the domain and the metaknowledge necessary in order for the coordinated accomplishment of these tasks, and on mimicking the methodolog y followed by the physician when evaluating the monitoring of the patient's condition.