Remote Ausculation System Using Wired-wireless Network

• US 20100189235A1
• Filed: 02/05/2008
• Published: 07/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dongjin Medical Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Dongjin Medical Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Um, Jae-Hak
• Application Number:
  US12/440,194
• Publication Number:
  US 20100189235A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/106.20
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 7/04 Electric stethoscopes microphones, acoustic transducers therefor H04R
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

The present invention relates to a remote auscultation system using wired/wireless communication network, in which an electronic stethoscope is connected to a communication device like a wired telephone or a mobile phone or a computer by interposing a separated communication module between them, and then the auscultation sounds of the patients obtained through the stethoscope are transmitted to a telephone of a medical doctor using wired/wireless communication network, and so the medical doctor can give remote medical treatment to a patient using wired/wireless communication network, and further, which can be connected and used directly to existing communication devices, and the remote auscultation system using wired/wireless communication network comprises; an electronic stethoscope (10) outputting auscultation sound signals obtained from a patient; a communication module (20) amplifying the auscultation sound signals being outputted from the electronic stethoscope (10) in predetermined volume and then outputting selectively the amplified stethoscope sound signals or the sound signals through a receiver (31); a patient'"'"'s telephone (30) transmitting the sound signals from a receiver (31) or the auscultation sound signals selected in the communication module (20) to a telephone of medical doctor (40) through a communication network; a telephone of medical doctor (40) outputting the auscultation sound signals transmitted through the patient'"'"'s telephone (30) or the sound signals through the receiver (31) to a receiver (41) or to a headset (42).

Claims

1. In a remote auscultation system using wired/wireless communication network comprising;

an electronic stethoscope (10) outputting auscultation sound signals obtained from a patient;

a patient'"'"'s telephone (30) transmitting the sound signals obtained by the receiver (31) or the auscultation sound signals obtained by the electronic stethoscope (10) to the telephone of medical doctor (40) through a wired/wireless communication network; and

a telephone of medical doctor (40) outputting the auscultation sound signals transmitted through the patient'"'"'s telephone (30) or the sound signals through the receiver (31) to a receiver (41) or a headset (42),

a communication module (20), which is further interposed between the electronic stethoscope (10) and the patient'"'"'s telephone (30), including;

an amplifier (22) amplifying the auscultation sound output signals being outputted to the output terminal (11) of the electronic stethoscope (10) fixedly insomuch as the level of the general telephone conversation sound, and a switching unit (23) connecting the sound output through the receiver (31) of the patient or the output of the amplifier (22) selectively to the patient'"'"'s telephone (30)

2. The remote auscultation system using wired/wireless communication network according claim 1, wherein the communication module (20) can be so built that the telephone conversation sounds of the patient'"'"'s receiver (31) and the auscultation sound signals of the stethoscope (10) can be transmitted at the same time through the patient'"'"'s telephone (30) or at the same time not through the patient'"'"'s telephone (30).