Patient monitor with visual reliability indicator

摘要

A patient monitor configured to display patient information in a display area. The patient information is indicative of at least one physiological parameter of a patient and includes at least one unitary display element in the display area that indicates simultaneously both a quantitative value and a reliability indication of the physiological parameter. An appearance of the display element transitions so as to represent a plurality of different reliability levels, including at least a first reliability level, a second reliability level, and at least one intermediary reliability level between the first and second reliability levels.

主权项

1. A patient monitor comprising:
a display device; and a processor configured to acquire a physiological parameter of a patient and to direct the display device to display a value of the physiological parameter, wherein the displayed value comprises text having a circumscribing outline and a fill populating the outline, and wherein the processor is further configured to direct the display device to smoothly shrink a level of the fill populating the outline over time to indicate a continuum of decreasing intermediate levels of reliability for the physiological parameter, such that the circumscribing outline of the displayed text value has a first level of fill at a first time and the circumscribing outline of the displayed text value has a second, lower level of fill at a second time, wherein the levels of reliability indicate at least in part an elapsed time since the physiological parameter was acquired.