Life System Monitor - Henry Ford Hospital, Emergency Medicine Department, Detroit, MI
1994
A computer monitoring and recording system to measure vital systems on a patient that has lost cardiac functions on route to the emergency ward. The system directly measures 4 blood pressure points through catheter insertions, CO2, SvO2 and O2 through interface with a gas monitor and EKG through interface with an EKG/Cardiac monitor. The system is designed to monitor, record and display graphs of these values and perform numerical analysis while a medical team tries to revive a patient. The system is also capable of recording (with time stamps), at the touch of a keypad, the various drugs that were administered and comments by the doctor throughout the revival process. All data is written directly to disk and can be played back, with transport controls similar to a tape recorder, all the events that have taken place. The program is also capable of printing extensive documentation, with many options, including all graphs with varying degrees of detail.