title: Guiding Principles for a Pediatric Neurology ICU (neuroPICU) Bedside Multimodal Monitor: Findings from an International Working Group.
abstract: Physicians caring for children with serious acute neurologic disease must process overwhelming amounts of physiological and medical information. Strategies to optimize real time display of this information are understudied.
  
  
  
  Our goal was to engage clinical and engineering experts to develop guiding principles for creating a pediatric neurology intensive care unit (neuroPICU) monitor that integrates and displays data from multiple sources in an intuitive and informative manner.
  
  
  
  To accomplish this goal, an international group of physicians and engineers communicated regularly for one year. We integrated findings from clinical observations, interviews, a survey, signal processing, and visualization exercises to develop a concept for a neuroPICU display.
  
  
  
  Key conclusions from our efforts include: (1) A neuroPICU display should support (a) rapid review of retrospective time series (i.e. cardiac, pulmonary, and neurologic physiology data), (b) rapidly modifiable formats for viewing that data according to the specialty of the reviewer, and (c) communication of the degree of risk of clinical decline. (2) Specialized visualizations of physiologic parameters can highlight abnormalities in multivariable temporal data. Examples include 3-D stacked spider plots and color coded time series plots. (3) Visual summaries of EEG with spectral tools (i.e. hemispheric asymmetry and median power) can highlight seizures via patient-specific "fingerprints." (4) Intuitive displays should emphasize subsets of physiology and processed EEG data to provide a rapid gestalt of the current status and medical stability of a patient.
  
  
  
  A well-designed neuroPICU display must present multiple datasets in dynamic, flexible, and informative views to accommodate clinicians from multiple disciplines in a variety of clinical scenarios.
authors.affiliation: Department of Healthcare Policy & Research, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Zachary M
authors.initials: ZM
authors.lastname: Grinspan
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Yonina C
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Eldar
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gopher
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Amihai
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gottlieb
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Rotem
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lammfromm
authors.affiliation: New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY; Department of Neurology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Halinder S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Mangat
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Nimrod
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Peleg
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pon
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Igal
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rozenberg
authors.affiliation: New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY; Department of Neurology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Nicholas D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Schiff
authors.affiliation: Departments of Medicine and Bioengineering, Stanford University , Stanford, CA.
authors.forename: David E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Stark
authors.affiliation: New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY; Department of Neurology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.affiliation: Faculties of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology , Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Hillel
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pratt
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY; Department of Neurology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Barry E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Kosofsky
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans; D015278:Intensive Care Units, Pediatric; D038622:Internationality; D020380:Needs Assessment; D009462:Neurology / Q000379:methods*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Pediatric intensive care units [N02.278.388.493.390]; biomedical engineering [H02.070]; data display [F02.784.412.221]; informatics [L01.313]; neurology [H02.403.600]