ACUTE LUNG INJURY (ALI)/ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME (ARDS) ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide ALI assessment with timely and available data.SOLUTION: A patient is monitored for a medical condition such as acute lung injury (ALl) by operations including: receiving values of a plurality of physiological parameters for the patient; computing an ALl indicator value on the basis at least of the received values of the plurality of physiological parameters for the patient; and displaying a representation of the computed ALl indicator value on a display. The computing operation may employ various inference algorithms trained on a training set comprising reference patients to distinguish between reference patients having ALl and reference patients not having ALl, or may employ two or more such inference algorithms. If patients in an ICU are monitored, the display may simultaneously display a diagrammatic representation of each patient including an identification of the patient and a representation of the ALl indicator value for the patient.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1