Method of Improving Medical Apparatus in Order to Replace Ancillary Medical Assistance by Employing Audible Verbal Human Sounding Voices to Prompt Therapeutic Usage and Provide Guidance, Measurements, Encouragement and Response, As Needed, to the Patient, By Using Electronic Technology
First Claim
1. An improved medical apparatus comprising:
- a medical apparatus of a type that requires ancillary medical assistance to ensure, prompt, inspire, entice, command, respond, inform or encourage recommended or required therapeutic use by a patient using said medical apparatus or in correlation with any medical procedure working in synthesis with said medical apparatus;
an electronic assembly comprising a microcontroller unit controlled by a functional program and an audio storage unit, said audio storage unit having at least one stored audible verbal message for prompting, enticing, commanding, inspiring, responding, informing or the patient to use said medical apparatus or which provides therapeutic guidance to the patient regarding use of the medical apparatus;
wherein the functional program controls the operation of said electronic assembly and eliminates the need for ancillary medical assistance when therapeutically guiding the patient to use said medical apparatus;
means for powering said electronic assembly; and
a speaker in communication with said electronic assembly for receiving said at least one stored audible verbal message from said audio storage unit upon direction from said microcontroller unit and transmitting the at least one stored audible verbal message directly to the patient to encourage compliance with the therapeutic guidelines for said medical apparatus by the patient without the necessity of having a live ancillary medical assistant present with the patient for such purposes.
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Abstract
This method comprises of a method of eliminating ancillary medical assistance by the utilization of audible, verbal simulated human sounding voices produced by electronic technology which allows the ability to supply audible, verbal instructional help, prompting, measurements and also respond to the actions the patient is taking, through a human sounding voice providing the therapeutic requirements of the medical apparatus itself. With the employment of this unique method of self instructing, electronically functioning medical apparatus, the present invention will provide assistance to both the patient and the doctor by supplying non-human assistance, and will allow the therapeutic procedures contained within the electronic hardware of the present invention to be attached to, or built within, or combined to accommodate usage of each medical apparatus, thus, eliminating the need for ancillary medical assistance.
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25 Claims
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1. An improved medical apparatus comprising:
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a medical apparatus of a type that requires ancillary medical assistance to ensure, prompt, inspire, entice, command, respond, inform or encourage recommended or required therapeutic use by a patient using said medical apparatus or in correlation with any medical procedure working in synthesis with said medical apparatus;
an electronic assembly comprising a microcontroller unit controlled by a functional program and an audio storage unit, said audio storage unit having at least one stored audible verbal message for prompting, enticing, commanding, inspiring, responding, informing or the patient to use said medical apparatus or which provides therapeutic guidance to the patient regarding use of the medical apparatus;
wherein the functional program controls the operation of said electronic assembly and eliminates the need for ancillary medical assistance when therapeutically guiding the patient to use said medical apparatus;
means for powering said electronic assembly; and
a speaker in communication with said electronic assembly for receiving said at least one stored audible verbal message from said audio storage unit upon direction from said microcontroller unit and transmitting the at least one stored audible verbal message directly to the patient to encourage compliance with the therapeutic guidelines for said medical apparatus by the patient without the necessity of having a live ancillary medical assistant present with the patient for such purposes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. An improved medical apparatus comprising:
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a medical apparatus having of a type that requires ancillary medical assistance to ensure or encourage recommended use of said medical apparatus by a patient; and
means for automatically verbally prompting the patient to use said medical apparatus to perform a medical procedure achieved through the use of said medical apparatus without having to have a live ancillary medical assistant physically present with the patient;
wherein said means for verbally prompting disposed within or attached to a housing of said medical apparatus or disposed within its own housing separate from said medical apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. An automated verbal prompting and indication device for a medical apparatus, said medical apparatus of a type that requires ancillary medical assistance to ensure or encourage use of said medical apparatus, said automated prompting device comprising:
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means for verbally prompting a patient to use said medical apparatus to perform a required or recommended procedure achieved through use of said medical apparatus, wherein said verbal prompting is achieved without the physical presence of an ancillary medical assistant with the patient; and
means for verbally indicating and verbally responding accordingly to a patient based on a measurement or result achieved by the patient from the user'"'"'s performance of the procedure according to said medical apparatus and without the physical presence of an ancillary medical assistant with the patient. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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