Patent ID: 7895527

Claim:
A system, comprising: a patient medical parameter processor adapted for, automatically acquiring data representing a plurality of different types of medical parameters of a patient and processing said data for presentation to a user via a display device and using the acquired medical parameters to detect a change in patient status and automatically initiating adding or removing an image window displaying a medical parameter in response to the detected change in patient status; and a display processor adapted for initiating display of: a plurality of different image windows presenting processed data representing and corresponding to said plurality of different types of medical parameters of said patient on said display device, each of said plurality of different image windows referenced to a single variable scale timeline comprising different consecutive time scales and arranged on said display device to permit said user to view values for each of said plurality of different types of medical parameters corresponding to a substantially common time from said single variable scale timeline; and a plurality of user interface elements implemented using object oriented executable code, each of said plurality of user interface elements adapted to provide a user selectable single setting of image display format characteristics shared by said plurality of image windows.