This paper introduces a powerful LabVIEW-based toolbox for monitoring, diagnosis and management of vital biosignals [electrocardiogram (ECG) and electromyogram (EMG)]. The main features of this software present in user-friendly graphical user interface, the patient's data management, real-time monitoring of heart and muscles activities, reviewing patient's progress through variety of charts, diagnosis of heart and muscles disorders and data transmission to remote clinician. The experimental validation of this toolbox showed that it has good performance and demonstrated a superior assurance quality in optimising clinical decisions based on real-time analysis of patient's vital signals.Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Amer, M.M.B., Qtait, Y., Al-Ebbini, L., Ammary, S. and Awwad, M. (2010) 'Design of a user-friendly LabVIEW-based toolbox for real-time monitoring and diagnosis of vital signals', Int.

This paper presents a new design for an electrotherapeutic system, characterized by a robust graphical user interface (GUI) design and patient feedback approach in order to guide the electrical stimulation process. This system is based on stimulating the patient by an electric current and analysing the signals generated from his/her body in response to the stimulation effect. The main advantage of this system over the conventional designs is that it is capable of providing self-adjustment of the stimulation parameters during the treatment session to achieve optimal stimulation results that increase the treatment efficiency and reduce the time needed to overcome the patients' impairments. Furthermore, it prevents any harm, pain or fatigue due to online measuring of the fatigue parameters during the treatment session. It is also capable of generating various shapes of stimulation pulses to treat patients with different impairments, and it has a friendly GUI that greatly simplifies patient data management and views the stimulus pulses with their controllable parameters.