Intelligent management of processes in a ICU telemedicine system

This work presents a project of telemedicine applied to Intensive Care Units (ICUs). The implemented communications scheme can be adapted to patients interned in an ICU as well as to remote patients connected to the principal hospital through the communication lines. The developed system also provides maximal flexibility on the physical level, allowing ISDN, ADSL, ATM and dedicated lines. This project focuses on the acquisition of medical data, the management of the communications and the visualization and posterior analysis of the data. It also includes a series of multimedia options that facilitate the collaboration during the diagnosis: use of videoconferences following video compression protocols (H.323), collaborative whiteboard (norm T.120), visualization of graphic files related to the patient, transmission of files by means of sockets, etc. The global system follows the IEEE MIB P-1073 standard, which it improves by including the acquisition of analog signals and to which it adds a component of intelligent monitoring using a knowledge based system (alarm check, tendencies analysis, communications control, etc.). The system disposes of an intelligent module (rules based system developed in OPS/R2) charged with management of the communication between the different processes, with the data transmission priorities, the bandwidth management, the management of the charge between various resources, etc