RESCUE TIME TRACKER

• US 20130049956A1
• Filed: 07/23/2012
• Published: 02/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Inventors: Freeman, Gary A., Totman, Mark, Herken, Ulrich, Resnick, Jeffrey, Cloutier, Jon P., Thomas, Colin
• Granted Patent: US 8,922,364 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/539.12
• CPC Class Codes: G04F 10/00 Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by electric means
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0453 worn on the body to detect health condition by physiological monitoring, e.g. electrocardiogram, temperature, breathing detecting, measuring or recording for diagnostic purposes A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/00 Arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received correcting synchronisation H04L7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor

Abstract

This document relates to systems and techniques for providing response to emergency situations, such as traffic accidents, cardiac arrest, or other medical emergencies.

Claims

1. A rescue time tracking device for communicating information to a rescuer, the device comprising:

an adhesive layer on a first side of the rescue time tracking device for affixing the rescue time tracking device to a victim;

timing circuitry configured to maintain time information relative to a time of initialization of the device; and

a display portion on the second side of the rescue time tracking device configured to display the time information.

2. The rescue time tracking device of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured to maintain the time information comprises circuitry configured to initialize the device to a preset time upon initialization of the device and decrement a time count from the preset time subsequent to initialization of the device.

3. The rescue time tracking device of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured to maintain the time information comprises circuitry configured to increment a time count from subsequent to initialization of the device.

4. The rescue time tracking device of claim 1, further comprising circuitry to determine when a predetermined amount of time has elapsed subsequent to initialization of the device and apply a visual indicia to the time information on the display portion upon the determination that the predetermined amount of time has elapsed.

5. The rescue time tracking device of claim 1, wherein the display portion is further configured to display time information for one or more events related to the victim.

6. The rescue time tracking device of claim 1, further comprising:

a plurality of input devices, each input device being associated with an event;

circuitry configured to record time information from the timing circuitry upon selection of a particular one of the plurality of input devices; and

wherein the display portion is configured to display the recorded current time information for the event.

7. The rescue time tracking device of claim 1, further comprising:

a wireless transmitter configured to transfer the time information to a computing device.

8. The rescue time tracking device of claim 1, further comprising:

a backing affixed to the backside of the rescue time tracking device prior to initialization, wherein removal of the rescue time tracking device from the backing initializes the timing circuitry.

9. A computer-implemented method for communicating information to one or more medical responders, the method comprising:

receiving, from a plurality of rescue time tracking devices, at a central computing device location information that identifies a current location of a victim associated with a particular rescue time tracking device and time information from the rescue timing device;

generating a display that identifies the location of the victims associated with the plurality of rescue timing devices and the timing information for the plurality of rescue timing devices.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving location information for the one or more medical responders; and

wherein generating the display further comprises identifying the location of the one or more medical responders based on the received location information for the one or more medical responders.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, further comprising color coding the location of the victims on the display based on the timing information.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the time information comprises a time count decremented from a preset total time.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein time information comprises an incrementing time count with an initial time for the time count being based on a time of initialization of the time counter device.