Patent ID: 8920318

Claim:
A method of forecasting a condition of sepsis in a premature infant comprising: a) using physiological sensors to acquire a plurality of different vital sign parameters of an infant, the physiological sensors connected to one or more processors and providing measurement values to the one or more processors of the plurality of different vital sign parameters of the infant; b) the one or more processors normalizing measurement values of the plurality of different vital signs including, for each of the different vital sign parameters of the infant that is not a bradycardia parameter, normalizing the each of the different vital sign parameters against historical values for said infant, the one or more processors transforming said normalized or un-normalized value; c) the one or more processors combining the transformed measurement values of the plurality of different vital sign parameters and thereby generating a single sepsis parameter, the single sepsis parameter comprising a single variable having a variable numerical value; d) the one or more processors monitoring the single sepsis parameter of the infant over time; and e) the one or more processors generating a forecast of the condition of sepsis in the infant from said single sepsis parameter when the single sepsis parameter reaches beyond a normal range.