Mobile Anesthesia Patient Metric Control Center

Abstract

Anesthesiologists in busy perioperative settings may supervise several operating rooms at once, while patient data remain confined to individual bedside anesthesia machines. This creates a risk of delayed recognition of physiologic deterioration, increases cognitive load, and forces repeated room-to-room transitions that can reduce situational awareness and response efficiency.

VitalSync is a centralized monitoring platform that aggregates anesthesia and vital-sign data from multiple operating room machines into a single dashboard. The system uses existing machine communication outputs, a local edge-buffering pathway, and a clinician-centered tile interface to organize patient metrics by acuity. This architecture is designed to support reliable data transmission, alarm visibility, and scalable monitoring across up to twelve operating rooms without altering core anesthesia hardware.

Project development has produced a tile-based user interface that decodes and accurately presents streamed anesthesia machine data in a centralized dashboard. Each operating room is shown as a patient tile with key physiologic values, waveforms, alarms, and case context, enabling rapid multi-room interpretation. Expandable patient-detail views provide additional clinical and demographic information, supporting both fast situational awareness and more detailed review. The device fully represented incoming emulator data with an end to end delay of under 500 ms.

VitalSync offers a feasible pathway toward safer and more efficient perioperative monitoring by improving cross-room visibility and supporting faster recognition of unstable patients. The project also establishes a strong foundation for future verification, regulatory planning, and potential clinical adoption as a software-centered monitoring support system.

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