Multi-Patient Vital Signs & Triage Alert Engine

A MATLAB triage engine that screens patient vital signs against safe clinical ranges, logs critical alerts, and plots telemetry trends.

Built by Team CodeX for the FUTMinna MATLAB Space bootcamp, Beyond The Code: Decode Your World (in collaboration with MathWorks). Track 2, Group 2.

🥈 First Runner-Up in the project presentations.

I'm Peter Onah Apeh, and I served as Team Lead for this project, leading a team of four to 1st Runner-Up among fifteen teams in the bootcamp challenge.

Team

Member	Role
Peter Onah Apeh	Team Lead
Mercy Akinola	Member
Paul Terna	Member
Ismail Wildan	Member

What it does

• Stores vitals for multiple patients in one 3-D array: patients x vitals x time steps.
• Checks every reading against safe ranges.
• Prints an alert for each abnormal reading and returns the total alert count.
• Plots heart rate, systolic blood pressure and temperature with safe-zone lines.

Safe ranges

Vital	Safe zone
Heart rate	50 - 120 bpm
Systolic BP	90 - 140 mmHg
Temperature	36.0 - 38.5 °C

Files

File	Purpose
main_track2.m	Main script. Builds sample data, calls the engine, draws the plots.
triageMonitor.m	Function alertCount = triageMonitor(vitalsMatrix).
docs/	Project documentation and dashboard image.

How to run

1. Put both .m files in the same folder.
2. Open main_track2.m in MATLAB.
3. Click Run.

Sample output

ALERT: Patient 2 at Time 1 | HR: 69, SBP: 121, Temp: 40.9
ALERT: Patient 2 at Time 2 | HR: 32, SBP: 88, Temp: 38.4
ALERT: Patient 2 at Time 3 | HR: 129, SBP: 152, Temp: 36.0
ALERT: Patient 2 at Time 5 | HR: 80, SBP: 118, Temp: 34.0

 Total Critical Incidents Logged: 4

Planned improvements

• Pop-up alerts with msgbox and a sound with beep, so a critical reading cannot be missed.
• Load vitals from a file or live feed.
• Severity levels instead of a single alert type.
• More vitals, such as oxygen saturation.

Documentation

Full write-up: docs/TeamCodeX_Documentation.docx