A caregiver's guide to reading the STATRA dashboard.

When you first open the STATRA caregiver dashboard, you may find yourself confronted with more information than you expected. Biometric readings, trend lines, baseline comparisons, alert histories — it can feel like a lot to process, particularly if you don't have a clinical background.

This guide is designed to help you navigate the dashboard with confidence, understand what you're looking at, and know when what you're seeing warrants action.

The Health Status Overview

The first thing you'll see when you open the dashboard is a health status overview for your loved one. This gives you a snapshot of their current status — whether their key biometric readings are within their normal range, slightly elevated, or flagged for attention. Think of this as your starting point. Green means things are broadly stable. Yellow means something is worth watching. Red means something needs attention now.

The status overview is calculated relative to your loved one's personal baseline — not against population averages. This means it takes into account what is normal specifically for them, which is particularly important for a condition as variable as sickle cell disease.

Understanding Biometric Trends

The trend section of the dashboard shows how key biometric measurements have changed over time. Rather than focusing on any single reading, look at the direction of travel. Is heart rate gradually increasing over several days? Is oxygen saturation showing a downward trend? Trends are more informative than snapshots.

When reviewing trends, pay particular attention to days when multiple measurements move in the same direction simultaneously. A small rise in heart rate alone may be unremarkable. A rise in heart rate accompanied by a fall in oxygen saturation and a rise in temperature, occurring together over the same period, is more significant.

The Alert History

The alert history log shows all alerts that have been generated for your loved one, along with the date, time, and type of alert. Reviewing this log periodically helps you understand whether alert frequency is increasing — which may suggest that your loved one's health is becoming less stable — or decreasing, which is generally a positive sign.

When to Act

The dashboard is designed to support your judgement, not replace it. If you see something that concerns you — a trend moving in the wrong direction, an unusually high number of alerts, or a reading that falls significantly outside your loved one's normal range — trust that concern. Contact your loved one to ask how they're feeling. Encourage them to rest, hydrate, and take their medication as prescribed. If the situation seems serious, encourage them to contact their healthcare team.

You don't need to be a clinician to use this dashboard well. You need to understand your loved one's normal pattern and notice when something deviates from it. The dashboard is built to make that as clear as possible. The rest is your knowledge, your relationship, and your care.