A clinical decision support tool on IntelliVue patient monitors
IntelliVue makes unique views of information available at the patient’s side. IntelliVue patient monitors incorporate innovations aimed at increasing the utility and value of patient monitor information at the bedside and central station.
IntelliVue's flexible trending and display capabilities are built into every model. They give clinicians immensely powerful tools for real-time clinical analysis by providing context, highlighting patterns, and, for the first time, making deviations instantly recognizable.
The benefits of screen trends to clinicians are compelling:
Decision support
- Compressed wave data puts current values in context
- Aligned gridlines and time scales make it simple to evaluate several measurement trends at the same time
Human factors
- Trend data and current data are in one place, so it’s easier to focus
- All numerics, real-time waves, and trends for a given measurement are the same color
- Visual data elements are bold and easily identified
- Different screen configurations present information in the best format for each patient
Ease of use
- The user interface is simple and intuitive
- All IntelliVue monitors share the same user interface
- Touchscreen navigation is available
Screen Trends offer a useful view over time
Screen trends are extremely flexible, displaying anywhere from 30 minutes to 12 hours of patient data without disrupting or obscuring real-time measurements. Three different formats—graphical, tabular, and horizon—are available.
Select a single parameter to display as a screen trend or group different parameters together. Grouped parameters all appear in the same format, with the same gridlines.
Graphical and tabular trends help synthesize meaningful information
Graphical trends are especially useful in groups. To make correlation easier, grouped trends have the same duration.
Also, when a graphical trend appears on the screen with its corresponding real-time wave, the scales are identical.
Tabular trends are embedded in the screen. They are available for the following aperiodic measurements:
- NBP – non-invasive blood pressure
- C.O./C.I. – cardiac output
- PAWP – pulmonary artery wedge pressure
- ITBV/ITBVI – intrathoracic blood volume
- EVLW/EVLWI* – extravascular lung water
- GEDV/GEDVI* – global end-diastolic volume
- CFI – cardiac function index
- TOFcnt/TOFrat – neuromuscular monitoring
* Not available in the United States.
Horizon Trends provide context
Horizon trending extends the screen trend as a clinical decision support tool. This remarkable view focuses on deviations from a baseline the clinician chooses. The baseline could reflect a starting status or a goal value.
Shaded graph trends clearly illustrate deviations over time. A bold deviation bar gives graphic impact to the patient’s current status. And the trend indicator arrow shows the general direction of the patient’s measurements over the preceding 10 minutes of data.