Automated scheduling of emergency procedure based on identification of high-risk patient
First Claim
1. A method for scheduling an emergency procedure, comprising the steps of:
- acquiring an electrocardiogram record for a particular patient;
determining that said particular patient has a high probability of acute coronary syndrome based on an automated analysis of data in said electrocardiogram record;
automatically routing a communication to a cardiologist on call, said communication comprising at least results of said automated analysis; and
in response to a predetermined message from the cardiologist, automatically scheduling an emergency procedure at an emergency coronary treatment facility.
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Abstract
A system and a method for scheduling an emergency procedure in response to detecting that a patient has a high probability of acute myocardial infarction. The system is able to identify patients that are suspected of having acute myocardial infarction (or acute ischemia). The system uses one or more expert software tools or algorithms to analyze received ECG records. Each software tool has logic (e.g., thresholds and/or settings) for automatic routing which is configurable by the customer via a graphical user interface. If any sufficient condition for automatic routing is satisfied, the system routes the data (including the underlying ECG record) and an alert to an electronic device which is accessible by the cardiologist “on call” via a bidirectional pager. If the cardiologist decides that the requested emergency treatment or procedure should be performed, the system accesses the schedules of all associated catheterization labs across multiple hospitals to identify a lab having optimum time-to-treatment. Then the system automatically contacts the selected catheterization lab via a network to schedule the PTCA procedure.
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27 Claims
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1. A method for scheduling an emergency procedure, comprising the steps of:
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acquiring an electrocardiogram record for a particular patient;
determining that said particular patient has a high probability of acute coronary syndrome based on an automated analysis of data in said electrocardiogram record;
automatically routing a communication to a cardiologist on call, said communication comprising at least results of said automated analysis; and
in response to a predetermined message from the cardiologist, automatically scheduling an emergency procedure at an emergency coronary treatment facility. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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12. A system for scheduling an emergency procedure, comprising:
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an instrument for acquiring an electrocardiogram record for a particular patient;
means for determining that said particular patient has a high probability of acute coronary syndrome based on an automated analysis of data in said electrocardiogram record;
means for automatically routing a communication to a cardiologist on call, said communication comprising at least results of said automated analysis;
an emergency coronary treatment facility; and
means for automatically scheduling an emergency procedure at said emergency coronary treatment facility in response to a predetermined message from the cardiologist.
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16. A system for scheduling an emergency procedure, comprising:
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an instrument for acquiring an electrocardiogram record for a particular patient;
an emergency coronary treatment facility; and
a computer programmed to perform the following steps;
determining that said particular patient has a high probability of acute coronary syndrome based on an analysis of data in said electrocardiogram record;
routing a communication to a cardiologist on call, said communication comprising at least results of said automated analysis; and
scheduling an emergency procedure at said emergency coronary treatment facility in response to a predetermined message from the cardiologist.
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