A modern ICU patient generates more streams of monitored data than any clinician can continuously integrate. The Critical Care State Space Project addresses this directly with visual models that compress a defined domain of ICU physiology into a single evidence-anchored view, making the dominant clinical problem immediately visible.
These are constraint-state-space visualisation models, not dashboards. Where a dashboard presents data, these models represent the patient's state within a defined physiological constraint space potentially opening new ways of understanding a patient's physiological condition.
Two live interpreters are available below. Both implement manual scrubbing of a 24-hour temporal loop to readily appreciate trajectory, hourly quantisation of blood-gas-derived values, and a "worst-metric" composite highlight that makes the dominant constraint readily visible.
A three-axis polygon spanning mechanical power, oxygenation, and ventilation, with a parallel "drill-down" view for resistance, PEEP, and compliance (the key mechanical determinants). A dedicated dead-space panel grounded in the Enghoff modification of the Bohr equation surfaces the P(a−ET)CO₂ gradient and Vd/Vt as a differential-reasoning cue.
Open prototypeExtends the paradigm to continuous renal replacement therapy as a four-axis polygon covering volume balance, metabolic state, hemodynamic adequacy, and solute clearance. A circuit-and-filter schematic view offers a complementary spatial reading of filter health, anticoagulation adequacy, and transmembrane pressure.
Open prototypeResearch prototypes only. The interpreters are intended for educational and methodological exploration. They are not validated clinical decision-support systems, are not regulated as medical devices, and are not intended to substitute for clinical judgement. Methodological documentation is available under Approach; the conceptual references are listed under References.