Patient watch-dog and intervention/event timeline

Abstract

A medical system includes a plurality of portable vital sign monitors (12), a patient assessment unit (24), a patient watch-dog unit (42), and at least one display device (44). Each monitor continuously monitors vital signs of a subject (12) from a point of initial contact with a healthcare professional and wirelessly transmits the monitored vital signs, and the vital signs include blood pressure (BP), blood oxygen (SpO2), heart rate (HR), and respiratory rate (RR). The patient assessment unit (24) receives the transmitted monitored vital signs of each subject and determines a triage score based on the received vital signs, and subject gender, subject age, and subject symptoms. The patient watch-dog unit (42) constructs a display of a patient trajectory of each subject and the trajectory includes the monitored vital signs, the determined triage score, and the subject gender, the subject age, and the subject symptoms. The at least one display device (44) display the constructed patient trajectory of at least one subject.

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technical field [0001] The following generally refers to patient monitoring. The following applies particularly in connection with, and is described with specific reference to, patient triage assessment and continuous patient monitoring. However, it should be understood that the following content also applies to other usage scenarios, and is not necessarily limited to the aforementioned applications. Background technique [0002] Hospital emergency departments are often the initial point of contact between an individual or emergency patient and the healthcare system. Patients with urgent medical conditions confront emergency departments with a wide variety of undifferentiated medical, surgical, psychological, and social problems. Patients with emergencies are encouraged to go directly to a hospital emergency department (ED) or emergency room by a physician's office that can see patients with unclassified problems. Patients admitted to other hospital departments often have...

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[0009] The following discloses a new and improved patient monitor and intervention / event timeline system that addresses the above mentioned problems and others

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