Temporal Assessment Model for Monitoring Critical Patients

This paper gives an integrated view of developing a model for an assessment systems and monitoring tasks of critical patients. This model was designed according to the Temporal Abstraction dimensions and state interpretation levels, particularly the monitored physiological state. Monitoring arrhythmias was used as reference case for models development. A model based on the algorithm Smith-Waterman with the matrix substitution modified, was developed for the assessment state interpretation model, for this application. The modification was oriented to give more influence to the principal state for the temporal pattern represented. The assessment state space model, allow to obtain additional temporal information about a possible evolution, not previously available in classic monitors.