METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING PATIENTS

• US 20110237960A1
• Filed: 03/25/2010
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Rantala, Börje
• Application Number:
  US12/731,581
• Publication Number:
  US 20110237960A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/485
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/022 by applying pressure to close blood vessels, e.g. against the skin; Ophthalmodynamometers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/055 involving electronic [EMR] or nuclear [NMR] magnetic resonance, e.g. magnetic resonance imaging

Abstract

A method, system and apparatus are disclosed for monitoring a subject with a transport monitor comprising a measurement unit including at least one magnetic component unit operative when monitoring the subject in absence of a high magnetic field. To maintain the monitoring capacity of a standard transport monitor even in the high magnetic field, the transport monitor is provided with a reconfiguration unit adapted to reconfigure the measurement unit for the high magnetic field so that at least part of the monitoring capability that the measurement unit has in absence of the high magnetic field is preserved in presence of the high magnetic field.

Claims