New Approaches to Physiological Informatics in Neurocritical Care

Introduction: A fundamental purpose of neurocritical care is the management of secondary brain injury. This is often accomplished by monitoring and managing individual patient parameters including physiological vital signs. Yet, the ability to record physiological data exceeds our ability to fully integrate it into patient care. We propose that advances in monitoring must be accompanied by advances in methods of high-frequency, multivariate data analysis that integrate the multiple processes occurring in critically ill patients.