SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING PHYSIOLOGICAL INFORMATION

• US 20130245463A1
• Filed: 09/11/2012
• Published: 09/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: Judy Moore, Wilbur Cruz Colaco
• Inventors: Stuebe, Susan, Colaco, Wilbur Cruz, Moore, Judy, Telling, Nicola, Wagner, Juan Antonio Vidal
• Application Number:
  US13/610,073
• Publication Number:
  US 20130245463A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/483
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0295 adapted for recording user messages or annotations
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/01 Measuring temperature of body parts ; Diagnostic temperature sensing, e.g. for malignant or inflamed tissue clinical contact thermometers G01K13/20
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/24 Detecting, measuring or recording bioelectric or biomagnetic signals of the body or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4356 Assessing uterine contractions A61B5/033 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7282 Event detection, e.g. detecting unique waveforms indicative of a medical condition A61B5/4094, A61B5/4818, A61B5/349, A61B5/0823 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/743 Displaying an image simultaneously with additional graphical information, e.g. symbols, charts, function plots
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• 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

Abstract

A method of displaying physiological information in a patient monitoring system is provided. The method includes receiving a user input as a digital annotation, maintaining the digital annotation as at least a part of patient monitoring data and displaying the digital annotation concurrently with information displayed by the patient monitoring system.

Claims

1. A method of displaying information in a patient monitoring system, the method comprising:

receiving a user input as a digital annotation;

maintaining the digital annotation as at least a part of patient monitoring data; and

displaying the digital annotation concurrently with information displayed by the patient monitoring system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital annotation includes a written note.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital annotation includes an image being displayed by the patient monitoring system.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital annotation includes a predefined annotation.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital annotation includes both a written note and information copied from another source.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising saving a current image of patient monitoring data being displayed by the patient monitoring system, and saving the digital annotation as being associated with the patient monitoring data.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving information from an additional user input as an additional digital annotation.

8. A method of searching information in a patient monitoring system, the method comprising:

launching a user configuration dialog;

displaying a list of annotation types available for search, the list of annotation types comprising at least one annotation;

receiving a user input, the user input depicting a selected annotation for search;

searching patient monitoring data for the selected annotation; and

displaying one or more selected annotations upon finding the selected annotation in the patient monitoring data.

9. A system for displaying physiological information, the system comprising:

a user interface having a viewable chart portion configured to display physiological information of an individual; and

a waveform module configured to obtain physiological signals as a function of time, the waveform module configured to plot a waveform that is based upon the physiological signals,

wherein the user interface is configured to receive digital annotations input by a user, display the waveform and the digital annotation in the chart portion and save the waveform and the digital annotation as a part of patient monitoring data.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the waveform module is configured to store a history of the plotted waveform, the user interface being configured to receive user inputs for retrieving the history of the plotted waveform and displaying the history of the plotted waveform in the chart portion.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the waveform module is configured to store a history of the plotted waveform along with the digital annotation input by the user, the user interface being configured to receive user inputs for retrieving the history of the plotted waveform along with the digital annotation and displaying the history of the plotted waveform along with the digital annotation in the chart portion.

12. The system of claim 9, further comprising sensors communicatively coupled to the waveform module, the sensors configured to detect the physiological signals from the individual.

13. The system of claim 9, further comprising an analysis module, the analysis module configured to identify predetermined patterns of the waveform that are indicative of an event-of-interest, the analysis module configured to notify the user about the occurrence of the event-of-interest.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the digital annotation input by the user and the plotted waveform have a fixed relationship with one another.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the physiological signals include a fetal heart rate and intrauterine pressure.

16. The system of claim 9, wherein the physiological signals relate to a heart rate, body temperature, blood pressure, respiratory rate, electrical activity, or intrauterine pressure.