an alert system for patient treatment that incorporates patient data to display information in readily identifiable icons for vital organs , and in a useable , real - time , updated fashion that extracts data from the medical history , the current medical management , and the current physiologic monitors to produce warnings and alerts to enable practitioners to be made aware of physiologic systems at risk , . these data are not only presented , but also use real - time queries and calculations to enable practitioners to have the types of data that would traditionally assist them in patient care but only be available by reviewing the medical literature and / or doing retrospective individual calculations while providing patient care .