SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING PROPER CUFF USE DURING NON-INVASIVE BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT

• US 20080243010A1
• Filed: 03/30/2007
• Published: 10/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Kulik, Robert Stanley
• Application Number:
  US11/694,585
• Publication Number:
  US 20080243010A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/499
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02233 Occluders specially adapted therefor tourniquets A61B17/132

Abstract

A non-invasive blood pressure system comprises a blood pressure cuff having an identifier and an aperture such that the identifier can be read through the aperture when the cuff is in a desired configuration. Another comprises a processor in operative communication with the cuff and configured to initiate a blood pressure determination when the identifier can be read through the aperture, while a method provides such blood pressure cuffs.

Claims

1. A non-invasive blood pressure system, comprising:

a blood pressure cuff having an identifier and a non-insertion aperture such that said identifier can be read through said aperture when said cuff is in a desired configuration.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said identifier comprises one or more bar codes.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said identifier comprises one or more radio-frequency identification tags.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein said cuff comprises radio-frequency blocking material except about said aperture.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein said identifier can be read through said aperture only when said cuff is in said desired configuration.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said desired configuration comprises a desired degree of wrap of said cuff.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein said desired configuration comprises a desired sizing of said cuff for a particular patient.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein said is a visual aperture.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein said aperture is a line-of-sight aperture.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of said identifier and said aperture are provided on a surface of said cuff.

11. A non-invasive blood pressure system, comprising:

a blood pressure cuff having an identifier a non-insertion aperture such that said identifier can be read through said aperture when said cuff is in a desired configuration; and

a processor in operative communication with said cuff and configured to initiate a blood pressure determination when said identifier is read through said aperture.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein said identifier comprises one or more bar codes.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein said identifier comprises one or more radio-frequency identification tags.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein said cuff comprises radio-frequency blocking material except about said aperture.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein said identifier can be read through said aperture only when said cuff is in said desired configuration.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein said processor is configured to automatically initiate said determination when said identifier is read through said aperture.

17. A method of determining blood pressure, comprising:

providing a blood pressure cuff having an identifier and a non-insertion aperture such that said identifier can be read through said aperture when said cuff is in a desired configuration.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein said identifier comprises one or more bar codes.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein said identifier comprises one or more radio-frequency identification tags.

20. A method of determining blood pressure, comprising:

providing a blood pressure cuff having an identifier and a non-insertion aperture such that said identifier can be read through said aperture when said cuff is in a desired configuration; and

initiating a blood pressure determination only when said identifier is read through said aperture.