Engineering design of reconfigurable medical resuscitation systems

Resuscitation software support systems help physicians and nurses to better organize team workflows and manage treatment history in a time and resource constrained environment. Such systems follow protocols that can significantly improve treatment quality and reduce the errors that deviate from resuscitation algorithms. However, the best practice algorithms may evolve over years and it brought some challenges to the long term use of such systems. Moreover, during practice, each hospital often have some custom software parts and the system needs to be tailored to different end users. It would be important to design such systems to be reconfigurable. The term reconfigurability here not only means we need to cover a polymorphism of treatment algorithms and hospital specific layout and logic, but also suggests it need to be adjusted to different team roles and different modes such as training, simulation or actual usage. As a good software engineering practice, tests of such system to make it reliable should also be modularized and reconfigurable. The focus of this thesis summarizes the principles to make the system more reconfigurable based on prior works. Our implementation formalizes different protocols pioneered by physicians, and uses digital twin concept to model the patient. The contributions in this thesis includes an architecture change that improved medical logic verifiability and extensibility by using a verifiable medical language MediK to replace YAKINDU Statechart Tools. Additional changes include shifting into browser/server structure from client/server structure for remote deployment and faster integration during COVID-19.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Electrical & Computer Engr

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2022

Author dc:creator

• Meng, Shaoyu

Contributors dc:contributor

• Sha, Lui

• medical system
• medical device
• resuscitation system

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2022 Shaoyu Meng

Language dc:language

en, eng

Handle dc:identifier

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/115590

OAI record oai:identifier

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=etdms&identifier=oai%3Awww.ideals.illinois.edu%3A2142%2F115590