Title :
The design of a simulator for an intensive care unit patient data management system
Author :
Fumai, N. ; Collet, C. ; Petroni, M. ; Malowany, A.S. ; Carnevale, F.A. ; Gottesman, R.D. ; Rousseau, A.
Author_Institution :
Res. Center for Intelligent Machines, McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada
Abstract :
A patient data management system (PDMS) for use in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Montreal Children´s Hospital is described. The PDMS acquires real-time patient data from a network of physiological bedside monitors and facilitates the review and interpretation of this data by presenting it as graphical trends, charts, and plots on a color video display. A patient data simulator was developed for the purpose of complete testing of the PDMS. The simulator also allows for training the medical staff independently of hospital facilities and at a remote location from the ICU. This work outlines the design and functionality of the simulator and focuses on its implementation using OS/2´s presentation manager window environment. Some experimental results and performance evaluations are presented, along with areas of future development and use
Keywords :
digital simulation; medical administrative data processing; patient care; real-time systems; training; OS/2; charts; color video display; graphical trends; intensive care unit; medical staff; patient data management system; patient data simulator; performance evaluations; physiological bedside monitors; plots; presentation manager window environment; real-time patient data; training; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical monitoring; Computational modeling; Computer displays; Hospitals; Management training; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical simulation; Pediatrics; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Based Medical Systems, 1990., Proceedings of Third Annual IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Chapel Hill, NC
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-9040-2
DOI :
10.1109/CBMSYS.1990.109433
