All in one medical monitor

• US 20120041276A1
• Filed: 08/13/2010
• Published: 02/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Delcina Doreus, Evon Doreus
• Original Assignee: Delcina Doreus, Evon Doreus
• Inventors: Doreus, Delcina, Doreus, Evon
• Application Number:
  US12/806,497
• Publication Number:
  US 20120041276A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/301
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02055 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular condition and temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/024 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse rate or heart rate A61B5/0205, A61B5/021 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14551 for measuring blood gases
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6831 Straps, bands or harnesses

Abstract

The present invention provides a portable medical monitoring device designed for personal use to measure a variety of physical parameters, such as heart rate, blood pressure, oximetry (SpO2), and blood sugar (glucose) level. The device is attached to a belt or arm band that is secured around an individual when the device is being used and is equipped with a display screen, test select switches, an optical module and a processing module that analyzes data generated by the optical module.

Claims

1. A personal medical monitoring device comprising means for measuring heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen content of red blood cells, and blood sugar level.

2. The medical monitoring device of claim 1, wherein the device comprises means for attachment to a user'"'"'s belt.

3. The medical monitoring device of claim 1, wherein the device comprises an arm band for attachment to a user'"'"'s arm.

4. The medical device of claim 1 comprising a display screen, test select switches, an optical module and a processing module for analysis of data generated by the optical module wherein the optical module typically includes first and second light sources that transmit optical radiation and infrared light, and further wherein the optical module comprises a photo detector that detects radiation transmitted or reflected by an underlying artery.

5. The medical device of claim 4 wherein the optical module comprises light emitting diodes (LEDs) capable of emitting light in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum capable of sequentially emitting radiation that is partially absorbed by blood flowing in the artery.

6. The medical device of claim 4 further comprising a photo detector synchronized with the LEDs, to detect transmitted or reflected radiation and wherein, the photo detector generates a separate radiation-induced signal in response to the reflected radiation for each wavelength.

7. The medical device of claim 6 capable of generating a signal which varies in a time-dependent manner as each heartbeat varies the volume of arterial blood and hence the amount of transmitted or reflected radiation.

8. The medical device of claim 6 further comprising a microprocessor in the pulse oximeter for processing the relative absorption of red and infrared radiation to determine the oxygen saturation in the patient'"'"'s blood.

9. The device of claim 6, further comprising a microprocessor for analysis of time-dependent features to determine the patient'"'"'s heart rate and blood pressure.

10. The device of claim 6 further comprising a glucose meter for determining the approximate concentration of glucose in the blood.