Kare Pulse
ICU clinical triage bedside tablet
- Platform
- Bedside tablet
- Built for
- ICU nurses and clinicians
- What I delivered
- Triage UX, alarm model, night mode
- Tools
- Figma, ProtoPie
Executive summary
A bedside tablet that turns streaming vitals into a single triage priority so nurses act on the right patient first.
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Non actionable alarms
Verified post-launch
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Faster response
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Hospitals live
Verified post-launch
The problem
Alarm fatigue: ICU nurses heard 350+ alarms per shift, 85% of them non actionable.
Research insights
- 1Nurses scan trends, not points.
- 2Gloved touch required 56px+ targets.
- 3Shift handoff lost context in 1 of 4 cases.
Constraints
Interactive prototype
This is the real emergency department console. Triage a patient and give them a bed, watch their live monitor and trigger an alarm, then scan and give their medicines with every safety check running.
Rafael Moreno 64M · 88 kg
MRN 2041 883 · Waiting room · 6 min since arrival
HR
112
SpO₂
93
BP
96/62
NEWS2
8
Waiting room
5 waiting · median 16 minSorted by acuity, then arrival. ESI shown is the live suggestion until a nurse confirms.
Roomed
Chief complaint
Crushing chest pain, 40 min, radiating left arm
Triage vitals · adjust to match your assessment
Amber = scores on NEWS2Heart rate
Systolic BP
SpO₂
Resp rate
Temperature
Pain
Consciousness (ACVPU)
NEWS2 early warning
Acuity (ESI)
Suggested ESI 2High risk, should not wait
Room in
1 · Triage
Pick a patient from the waiting room, adjust their vitals and watch the early warning score and suggested acuity update, then choose a bed and confirm.
2 · Telemetry
Live heart, oxygen and breathing waveforms. Simulate a deterioration to trigger a real alarm, acknowledge it and follow the event log.
3 · Meds
Scan the wristband and the drug, pass the five rights, get a co sign on heparin. Penicillin is hard stopped for the allergic patient, and metoprolol holds when the live heart rate drops.
Solution walkthrough
Priority stack
Patients ranked by a composite early warning score with explainable drivers.
Smart alarm grouping
Correlated alarms collapse into one actionable event.
Handoff snapshot
A 60 second structured summary auto generated at shift change.
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