SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMS DEVICE COMMUNICATION INTERFACE

• US 20130096649A1
• Filed: 10/09/2012
• Published: 04/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Inventors: MARTIN, Michael Scott, ASHMORE, Chad, DEINES, Eric A., FREEMAN, Gary A., KAIB, Thomas E., REID, C. Shane, SOLLER, Jeremy Ryan, VOLPE, Shane S., RUGGIERO, Gary, GEHEB, Frederick J., HELMICK, Joseph L., RATTANNI, Richard A.
• Granted Patent: US 10,765,873 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 607/60
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/37217 characterised by the communication link, e.g. acoustic or tactile
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A system for supplementing communications capabilities of a patient monitoring device, the system including an interface device configured to communicably couple with and to receive the patient monitoring information from the patient monitoring device, a memory device hosted by the interface device and configured to store at least a portion of the patient monitoring information, a wireless transceiver hosted by the interface device, a database hosted by the interface device; and a processor communicably coupled to the wireless transceiver and the asset management database, the processor configured to format the patient monitoring information into one or more data objects, each of the one or more data objects associated with an EMS incident during which the patient monitoring information was gathered, the processor further configured to store the one or more data objects to the database and to transmit the one or more data objects with the wireless transceiver.

Claims

1. A system for supplementing communications capabilities of a patient monitoring device configured to monitor a patient and to make available patient monitoring information, the system comprising:

an interface device configured to communicably couple with and to receive the patient monitoring information from the patient monitoring device;

a memory device hosted by the interface device and configured to store at least a portion of the patient monitoring information;

a wireless transceiver hosted by the interface device;

an asset management database hosted by the interface device; and

a processor communicably coupled to the wireless transceiver and the asset management database, the processor configured to format the patient monitoring information into one or more data objects, each of the one or more data objects associated with an EMS incident during which the patient monitoring information was gathered, the processor further configured to store the one or more data objects to the asset management database and to transmit the one or more data objects with the wireless transceiver.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to receive, via the wireless transceiver, a request for data objects associated with a specific EMS incident, query the asset management database to retrieve all data objects associated with the specific EMS incident, and to transmit the data objects associated with the specific EMS incident with the wireless transceiver.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the patient monitoring device is a defibrillator, and wherein the one or more data objects comprises one or more ECG waveforms.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the patient monitoring device comprises an audio device configured to generate a heart sound signal from a patient, and wherein the processor is further configured to format the heart sound signal into the one or more heart sound data objects.

5. The system of claim 4, further comprising an electronic stethoscope configured to connect with the processor and receive the one or more heart sound data objects.

6. A method for streaming patient information from a clinical device, comprising:

establishing a wireless data connection with the clinical device;

receiving patient information from the clinical device via the wireless data connection at least once every five seconds; and

displaying at least a portion of the patient information in an emergency medical services mobile environment.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the clinical device is a defibrillator.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein receiving the patient information comprises receiving the patient information from the clinical device via the wireless data connection at least once every second.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the wireless data connection is a secure WiFi connection.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the patient information is clinical information, the method further comprising receiving non-clinical information and displaying the clinical information and the non-clinical information simultaneously in the emergency medical services mobile environment.

11. The method of claim 6, wherein the patient information comprises an ECG waveform.

12. The method of claim 6, wherein the patient information comprises a heart rate.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the patient information comprises an ECG waveform.

14. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving full disclosure data from the clinical device;

formatting the full disclosure data into one or more data objects, wherein the one or more data objects comprise a full disclosure record XML object, wherein the full disclosure record XML object comprises a time identifier, an incident identifier, and clinical information associated with a time identified by the time identifier and an incident identified by the incident identifier; and

sending the full disclosure record XML object over the wireless data connection as the patient information.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising storing the one or more data objects in a computer readable medium.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

sending a request over the wireless data connection, the request including a particular incident identifier;

retrieving from the computer readable medium and adding to a response set each of the one or more data objects for which the incident identifier corresponds to the particular incident identifier of the request; and

sending the response set over the wireless data connection.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising displaying at least a portion of the response set in the emergency medical services mobile environment.

18. A method for supplementing communications capabilities of a patient monitoring device configured to monitor a patient and to make available patient monitoring information, the method comprising:

receiving the patient monitoring information from the patient monitoring device to an EMS communication interface device;

storing the patient monitoring information to a memory hosted by the EMS communication interface device;

formatting the patient monitoring information into a stream of one or more data objects, each of the one or more data objects associated with an EMS incident during which the patient monitoring information was gathered;

storing the one or more data objects to an asset management database hosted by the EMS communication interface device; and

transmitting the stream of one or more data objects via a wireless transceiver of the EMS communication interface device.

19. A method comprising transmitting clinical data about a patient from a defibrillator device to an external device via a wireless network connection while the defibrillator device is actively monitoring the patient during an emergency medical treatment or transport.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the clinical data comprises a plurality of ECG waveforms, the method further comprising displaying one or more historical snapshots of the plurality of ECG waveforms on a display device, wherein the display device is independent of the defibrillator device.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein displaying the one or more historical snapshots of the plurality of ECG waveforms comprises displaying a most recent ECG waveform of the plurality of ECG waveforms simultaneously with another of the one or more historical snapshots of the plurality of ECG waveforms.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the external device is a display device located within an emergency response vehicle.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the emergency response vehicle is an ambulance.

24. The method of claim 19, further comprising transmitting the clinical data to a remote server to enable web browser access to the clinical data while the defibrillator device is actively monitoring the patient during the emergency medical treatment or transport.