Compact technique for visualization of physiological clinical and bedside device data using fishbone representation for vitals

A method for displaying a patient's vital sign measurements, comprising:

• displaying a horizontal line with one or more vertical crossing lines to define four or more compartments;
• displaying the patient's respiratory rate, heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, and temperature, each in an assigned one of the compartments;
• displaying two diverging lines forming a sideways “V” connected with a right hand side of the horizontal line to define another compartment;
• and
• displaying the patient's blood pressure in the compartment defined by the two diverging lines, wherein an upward or downward pointing arrow is displayed in one or more of the compartments to indicate that a vital sign measurement displayed in the compartment is out of range, and wherein a length of the arrow shaft indicates a worsening condition of the vital sign over time.

A patient vital sign monitoring and display system comprising:

• an input/output circuit configured to communicate with a communication network;
• a display device;
• and
• one or more computer processors connected with the input/output circuit and the display device wherein the one or more computer processors are configured to control the display device to generate a fishbone diagram defining a plurality of compartments and display patient vital sign measurements received from the input/output circuit or optionally from a user input device or from one or more physiological parameter sensors configured to measure a patient's vital signs each in a consistent compartment of the fishbone diagram, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
• determine when a vital sign measurement is above a preselected high limit or below a preselected low limit;
• control the display device to display an upward arrow adjacent a vital sign measurement that is above the high limit and a downward arrow adjacent a vital sign measurement that is below the low limit and wherein the arrow has a length to indicate a time measurement of how long a vital signs is above or below a defined alarm limit or color to indicate how far the measured vital sign measurement is above or below the defined alarm limit.

A patient vital sign monitoring and display system comprising:

• one or more processors configured to:
• receive vital sign measurements including a respiration rate measurement, a heart rate measurement, an SpO2 measurement, and a temperature measurement;
• determine when a vital sign measurement is above a preselected high limit or below a preselected low limit;
• control a display device to generate a fishbone diagram including a horizontal line, a vertical line crossing the horizontal line to define a first display area above the horizontal line and left of the vertical line, a second display area above the horizontal line and right of the vertical line, a third display area below the horizontal line and left of the vertical line, and a fourth display area below the horizontal line and right of the vertical line, and to display each of the respiration rate measurement the heart rate measurement, the SpO2 measurement, and the temperature measurement without identifying labels in an assigned one of the display areas consistently across a patient population and to display an upward arrow adjacent a vital sign measurement that is above the high limit and a downward arrow adjacent a vital sign measurement that is below the low limit and wherein the arrow has a length to indicate a time measurement of how long a vital sign is above or below a defined alarm limit or color to indicate how far the measured vital sign measurement is above or below the defined alarm limit.