System and method for controlling the operation of a therapeutic pad
First Claim
1. A system for controlling a therapeutic pad having a data storage medium, comprisingmeans for at least one of reading and writing data of the data storage medium of the therapeutic pad, the data storage medium storing a therapeutic pad serial number, a patient identifier and a protocol name, the data storage medium additionally storing a timestamp, a treatment server identifier, an event, and an expiration information, wherein information in the data storage medium of the therapeutic pad allows confirmation of a current patient-therapeutic pad relationship and the data storage medium is an RF tag placed in a hydraulic connector of the therapeutic pad;
- means for implementing an operational procedure depending upon the data of the data storage medium of the therapeutic pad, wherein when the therapeutic pad is attached to a new thermal treatment device, the new thermal treatment device will read data in the data storage medium and will automatically select the operational procedure based at least on the read data from the data storage medium, the therapeutic pad having a shape corresponding to a particular body part to be treated with the operational procedure, the therapeutic pad receiving a fluid, the fluid circulating in the therapeutic pad through internal communication channels, the internal communication channels delimited by internal welding lines and welding points; and
means for controlling a temperature, a pressure, and flow of the fluid through the therapeutic pad, wherein the system modifies a treatment of the therapeutic pad in a controlled manner through a feedback control to optimize a patient'"'"'s treatment.
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Abstract
The invention provides for a system for controlling a therapeutic pad having a data storage medium. The system for controlling has means for reading and/or writing the data of the data storage medium of the therapeutic pad, and means for implementing an operational procedure depending on the data of the storage medium of the therapeutic pad. Further, a method for controlling a therapeutic pad having a data storage medium is provided. The method has the steps of reading and/or writing the data of the data storage medium of the therapeutic pad, and implementing operational procedure depending on the data of the storage medium of the therapeutic pad. Furthermore, a computer program product is provided. The computer program product has one or more computer readable media having computer executable instructions for performing the steps of the method as discussed hereinbefore.
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15 Claims
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1. A system for controlling a therapeutic pad having a data storage medium, comprising
means for at least one of reading and writing data of the data storage medium of the therapeutic pad, the data storage medium storing a therapeutic pad serial number, a patient identifier and a protocol name, the data storage medium additionally storing a timestamp, a treatment server identifier, an event, and an expiration information, wherein information in the data storage medium of the therapeutic pad allows confirmation of a current patient-therapeutic pad relationship and the data storage medium is an RF tag placed in a hydraulic connector of the therapeutic pad; -
means for implementing an operational procedure depending upon the data of the data storage medium of the therapeutic pad, wherein when the therapeutic pad is attached to a new thermal treatment device, the new thermal treatment device will read data in the data storage medium and will automatically select the operational procedure based at least on the read data from the data storage medium, the therapeutic pad having a shape corresponding to a particular body part to be treated with the operational procedure, the therapeutic pad receiving a fluid, the fluid circulating in the therapeutic pad through internal communication channels, the internal communication channels delimited by internal welding lines and welding points; and means for controlling a temperature, a pressure, and flow of the fluid through the therapeutic pad, wherein the system modifies a treatment of the therapeutic pad in a controlled manner through a feedback control to optimize a patient'"'"'s treatment. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method to control a therapeutic pad having a data storage medium, comprising the steps of:
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at least one of reading or writing data of the data storage medium to the therapeutic pad, the data storage medium storing a therapeutic pad serial number, a patient identifier and a protocol name, the data storage medium additionally storing a timestamp, a treatment server identifier, and an event, wherein information in the data storage medium of the therapeutic pad allows confirmation of a current patient—
therapeutic pad relationship and the data storage medium is a Radio Frequency (RF) tag placed in a hydraulic connector of the therapeutic pad;implementing operational procedure depending on the data of the data storage medium of the therapeutic pad, wherein when the therapeutic pad is attached to a new thermal treatment device, the new thermal treatment device will read data in the data storage medium and will automatically select the operational procedure based at least on the read data from the data storage medium, the therapeutic pad having a shape corresponding to a particular body part to be treated with the operational procedure, the therapeutic pad receiving a fluid, the fluid circulating in the therapeutic pad through internal communication channels, the internal communication channels delimited by internal welding lines and welding points; and controlling a temperature, a pressure and flow of the fluid through the therapeutic pad, wherein a treatment of the therapeutic pad is modified in a controlled manner through a feedback control in order to optimize a patient'"'"'s treatment. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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15. A system adapted to control a therapeutic pad having a data storage device, comprising
a radio frequency identification (RFID) writer/reader that reads and writes data of the data storage device of the therapeutic pad, the data storage device storing a therapeutic pad serial number, a patient identifier and a protocol name, the data storage device additionally storing a timestamp, a treatment server identifier and an event, wherein information in the data storage medium of the therapeutic pad allows confirmation of a current patient— - therapeutic pad relationship and the data storage device is a radio frequency (RF) tag placed in a hydraulic connector of the therapeutic pad;
a processing unit that implements an operational procedure depending upon the data of the data storage medium of the therapeutic pad, wherein when the therapeutic pad is attached to a new thermal treatment device, the new thermal treatment device will read data in the data storage medium and will automatically select the operational procedure based at least on the read data from the data storage device, the therapeutic pad having a shape corresponding to a particular body part to be treated with the operational procedure, the therapeutic pad receiving a fluid, the fluid circulating in the therapeutic pad through internal communication channels, the internal communication channels delimited by internal welding lines and welding points; and one or more sensors that control a temperature, a pressure and flow of the fluid through the therapeutic pad, wherein the system modifies a treatment of the therapeutic pad in a controlled manner through feedback control to optimize a patient'"'"'s treatment.
- therapeutic pad relationship and the data storage device is a radio frequency (RF) tag placed in a hydraulic connector of the therapeutic pad;
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