SIMON: A distributed computer architecture for intelligent patient monitoring

✍ Scribed by Benoit M. Dawant; Serdar Uckun; Eric J. Manders; Daniel P. Lindstrom

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 883 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0957-4174
• DOI: 10.1016/0957-4174(93)90033-3

✦ Synopsis

Intelhgent real-trine patwnt momtormg encompasses data acquzsttton and reductton, sensor vahdatton, dtagnosts, therapy advice, and selecttve dtsplay of mformatton Thts paper descrtbes the archttecture and the functionahty of a prototype mtelhgent patwnt momtormg system, named SIMON, destgned to meet these requlrements In SIMON, the vartous aspects of a momtormg task are performed by three semt-mdependent modules runnmg asynchronously the feature extractlon, the pattent model, and the display modules Central to SIMON ts the notion of context sensmvtty which permtts (a) the adaptatton of the momtormg strategy tn response to changes etther in the patwnt state or in the monttortng equtpment and (b) the contextual lnterpretatton of incoming data SIMON ts currently apphed to the task of momtormg newborn mfants with resptratory distress syndrome (RDS) and undergoing asststed venttlaHon