3. A method for providing to a user a suggested treatment for a patient having physical trauma, comprising the steps of: creating at least one knowledge base containing rules that relate different types of physical trauma characteristics and patient characteistics to different types of treatments for physical trauma; eliciting information from said user concerning characteristics of said patient including the type of physical trauma substained by said patient, to thereby develop at least one database containing patient and trauma characteristics; applying said knowledge base and database to a computer; and using said computer to infer the apropriate treatment for said patient from said rules and said database, by forward chaining, in which a sequence of rules relating to a particular treatment is established, and backward chaining, in which said sequence of rules es reversed and said rules are tested based on said trauma and patient characteristics, to determine the desirability of said particular treatment.
3. A method for providing to a user a suggested treatment for a patient having physical trauma, comprising the steps of: creating at least one knowledge base containing rules that relate different types of physical trauma characteristics and patient characteistics to different types of treatments for physical trauma; eliciting information from said user concerning characteristics of said patient including the type of physical trauma substained by said patient, to thereby develop at least one database containing patient and trauma characteristics; applying said knowledge base and database to a computer; and using said computer to infer the apropriate treatment for said patient from said rules and said database, by forward chaining, in which a sequence of rules relating to a particular treatment is established, and backward chaining, in which said sequence of rules es reversed and said rules are tested based on said trauma and patient characteristics, to determine the desirability of said particular treatment. 4. The method of claim 3, wherein said step of creating said knowledge base includes the step of creating rules that relate said trauma and patient characteristc to characteristics of said treatments, said step of forward chaining establishes a sub-sequence of rules relating to a particular treatment characteristic, and said step of backward chaining reverses said subsequence of rules, and testes said sub-sequence of rules based on said trauma and patient characteristics, to thereby determine the desirability of said particular treatment characteristic.