Medical unit with an apparatus for an examination of a patient and an associated method

• US 20090018412A1
• Filed: 07/10/2008
• Published: 01/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Schmitt, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US12/218,070
• Publication Number:
  US 20090018412A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/309
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/0045 Devices for taking samples of body liquids devices for taking blood samples A61B5/15
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/0051 for taking saliva or sputum samples devices for receiving spittle A61J9/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/0064 for taking sweat or sebum samples measuring sweat production A61B5/4266
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/055 involving electronic [EMR] or nuclear [NMR] magnetic resonance, e.g. magnetic resonance imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/082 Evaluation by breath analysis, e.g. determination of the chemical composition of exhaled breath A61B5/083, A61B5/091 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/00 Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis; Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis combined with radiation therapy equipment instruments measuring radiation intensity for application in the field of nuclear medicine, e.g. in vivo counting, G01T1/161; apparatus for taking X-ray photographs G03B42/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/502 for diagnosis of breast, i.e. mammography

Abstract

The invention relates to a medical unit with an apparatus designed for the examination or treatment of a patient. The medical unit comprises at least one means designed for the collection or analysis of at least one substance exuded from the body of the patient during the course of a bodily process concomitantly to the examination or treatment of the patient with the apparatus.

Claims

1-12. -12. (canceled)

13. A medical unit, comprising:

an apparatus that examines a patient; and

a unit that collects a substance exuded from a body of the patient during a course of a bodily process of the patient concomitantly to the examination by the apparatus.

14. The medical unit as claimed in claim 13, wherein the substance comprises a disease-related substance or a substance specifically changed in a disease.

15. The medical unit as claimed in claim 13, wherein the substance is selected from the group consisting of:

odorous, respiratory air, sweat, saliva, hormone, and neurotransmitter.

16. The medical unit as claimed in claim 13, wherein the unit is selected from the group consisting of:

an odor sensor, a respiratory air sensor, a fluid sensor, a spectroscopic unit, and a spectrometric unit.

17. The medical unit as claimed in claim 13, wherein the unit analyzes the collected substance during the course of the bodily process of the patient concomitantly to the examination by the apparatus.

18. The medical unit as claimed in claim 13, wherein the unit is controlled by a computational unit for collecting or analyzing the substance.

19. The medical unit as claimed in claim 18, wherein the unit is controlled by the computational unit for automatically collecting or analyzing the substance.

20. The medical unit as claimed in claim 13, wherein a result of an analysis of the substance is transmitted to a computational unit.

21. The medical unit as claimed in claim 13, wherein the apparatus is controlled by a computational unit based on a result of an analysis of the substance.

22. The medical unit as claimed in claim 21, wherein the apparatus is automatically controlled by the computational unit based on the result of the analysis of the substance.

23. The medical unit as claimed in claim 21, wherein the result is optionally displayed on a screen on the computational unit for an operator.

24. The medical unit as claimed in claim 13, wherein the substance is jointly analyzed during an evaluation of an examination data or a treatment data of the patient by a computational unit.

25. The medical unit as claimed in claim 13, wherein the unit is integrated in the apparatus.

26. The medical unit as claimed in claim 13, further comprising a plurality of units for collecting or analyzing the substance exuded from a plurality of different points of the body of the patient.

27. The medical unit as claimed in claim 13, wherein the apparatus performs a treatment for the patient.

28. The medical unit as claimed in claim 13, wherein the apparatus is selected from the group consisting of:

an X-ray apparatus, a computerized tomography apparatus, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, a positron emission tomography apparatus, an ultrasound apparatus, a mammography apparatus, a dentistry apparatus, an endoscopic apparatus, a catheter-based apparatus, an ear medicine apparatus, a nose medicine apparatus, and a throat medicine apparatus.

29. A method for assisting an examination of a patient, comprising:

collecting a substance exuded from a body of the patient during a course of a bodily process of the patient concomitantly to the examination; and

examining the patient based on the collected substance.