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I really like this idea of monitoring people like we monitor servers. I wonder what useful information you could extract from this. Like a very slight downward
by shadycuz 6y ago
I really like this idea of monitoring people like we monitor servers.
I wonder what useful information you could extract from this. Like a very slight downward trend in blood pressure over a day. Could this be used to detect something like a slight internal bleed after a surgery?
- JshWright 6y agoThe body is very good at compensating for stuff like that. A falling blood pressure is a very late signal. The body has several tools at its disposal to maintain pressure (constricting the blood vessels, slowing the output of the kidneys, increasing the heartrate, etc). Two of those (urine output and heartrate) are already trended throughout the day for hospitalized patients.
- LanceH 6y agoYou hear about athletes having their blood monitored to balance recovery, but it seems every instance of this turned out to be about doping.
- rasmus1610 6y agoOur hospital actually records the patient monitor data of ICU patients and analyzes them for scientific purposes. And I agree, there is a tremendous amount of information in it, although bleeding is detected otherwise faster (blood gas analysis e.g.)
- stephenboyd 6y agoPatient vital sign monitoring has been a regular practice much longer than server monitoring.
- fhsm 6y agoNot just a long standing part of medicine as you said but also one of the best trodden topics in informatics: - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-43742-2_5 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-43742-2_... - https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201635 https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201635