Vital signs monitoring for a patient data management system in an ICU

This thesis presents the design and implementation of a Vital Signs Monitoring System for a Patient Data Management System in an intensive care unit. The Vital Signs Monitoring System provides graphical display of patient data to assist medical decision making. It performs real-time patient data acquisition, and supports data management. Visual coding of information has been investigated to ensure effective graphical representation of patient data, to reduce screen clutter, and to enhance interpretability of graphical displays. A survey of existing patient monitoring systems, and patient data management systems is presented to give an overview of the recent advancements in these medical systems. Emphasis is placed on the design of the user interface. Important interface design considerations are discussed, and a survey of interactive hardware, interaction tasks, and dialog style is presented.The Vital Signs Monitoring System was developed in C language under the Presentation Manager window environment, and the operating system environment is OS/2 version 2.0