Automated data collection and presentation in the operating room.

An 'Operating Room Data Integration System', is described which is used to collect, present and archive all important physiological parameters during open heart surgery. The system requires very little attention, and provides an easy to understand and coherent interface to the user. The system is adaptable to a large extend and thus data can be presented to the user in a manner, with which he or she is already familiar. Simple drivers can be written to enable connection of the system to almost any other piece of medical equipment, if the latter provides an analog or digital, output signal. Automatic logging of the acquired signals is then possible.