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PATIENT MONITOR AMBIENT DISPLAY DEVICE

  • US 20110028809A1
  • Filed: 07/28/2010
  • Published: 02/03/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2009
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A patient wellness indicator configured to provide a non-numeric indication of patient wellness in at least a substantial portion of a display element, the indicator comprising:

  • a stand-alone lamp device configured to alter its color in response to a received indication of one or more physiological parameters or combination of physiological parameters measured by a noninvasive optical sensor and processed through a patient monitor, the lamp device capable of incrementally emitting at least three colors, each increment corresponding to a change in said received indication, said incremental changes in one direction corresponding to said received indication approaching a increasing wellness, said incremental changes in another direction corresponding to said received indication approaching a decreasing wellness, said lamp device also configured to emit at least one alarm condition where a decreasing wellness falls below a threshold where a caregiver should administer care;

    a memory capable of storing a plurality of said received indications; and

    a processor capable of accessing said memory and driving said lamp device to emit said colors, said processor capable of statistically combining said received indications to control said emission color of said lamp device according to a predetermined rate of change.

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