Urodynamics is a diagnostic technique which makes full use of informatics. In the urodynamic laboratory the computer collects data both during clinical evaluation and during tests. Wiest KG software, which has been utilised in our laboratory for over five years, is illustrated. The advent of microprocessors has led to the development of miniaturised diagnostic systems in the biomedical field, which can study essential body functions over long periods of time: Rigiscan and vesicourethral Holter. We may assume that, with the development of so-called expert systems, the computer will take over the crucial urodynamic investigation which leads to diagnosis.
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