In critical care environments, clinicians continuously operate with a big amount of data. Its quick interpretation and timely decision is life important for their patients. The solution in this case is medical visualization technology, which integrates massive information into an easily interpretable indicator that is a meaningful representation of the actual situation.^[1]

Therefore, UTAS has implemented a Lung Monitor widget in UVENT-S ICU ventilators, aimed at enhancing data visualization and easing decision-making for healthcare professionals.

The Lung Monitor widget is designed to improve the perception and evaluation of complex, dynamically changing ventilation parameters. This is achieved through intuitive, animated graphics that provide a real-time overview of patient lung mechanics and gas exchange function.

With just a quick glance at the screen, clinicians can analyze key ventilation parameters such as lung compliance, resistance, spontaneous breathing efforts, saturation, pulse and respiratory rate. This can lead to faster evaluation of patient status and proceed with necessary clinical action.

The widget’s main features:

• Lung compliance indication: The animation with colored indication helps clinicians easily determine the lung tissue elasticity and its dynamic changes, as a therapy response or disease progress.

• Inspiratory resistance indication: This shows how big resistance the patient’s airways have and help to individualize ventilation settings and suction periods.

• Spontaneous effort visualization: Animated diaphragm icon makes it clear when the patient is attempting to breathe on their own, helping to assess readiness for weaning from mechanical support.

• Oxygen saturation and pulse rate: Dynamic heart icon with contractions and intuitive color change track the saturation level and pulse rate, providing real-time feedback (from SpO2 sensor).

• Breath rate animation: The respiratory rate is continuously updated, offering an immediate display of breathing patterns by every breath.

By presenting this data in a visual format, the Lung Monitor widget in UVENT-S ICU ventilator supports quicker, individualized interpretation of breathing mechanics and vital status, thus facilitating faster decision making. It’s a great example of how advanced technology can enhance care in time-pressure ICU conditions.

References
1. Gasciauskaite et al. Human-centered visualization technologies for patient monitoring are the future: a narrative review. Crit Care. 2023 Jun 28;27(1):254.