DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ENTERING USER INFORMATION INTO MEDICAL DEVICES

• US 20130317420A1
• Filed: 05/10/2013
• Published: 11/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA)
• Original Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA)
• Inventors: WEHMEYER, Wolfgang
• Application Number:
  US13/891,560
• Publication Number:
  US 20130317420A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/29
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/28 Peritoneal dialysis ; Other peritoneal treatment, e.g. oxygenation
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/30 Single needle dialysis ; Reciprocating systems, alternately withdrawing blood from and returning it to the patient, e.g. single-lumen-needle dialysis or single needle systems for hemofiltration or pheresis
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

The present invention relates to the field of a device and a method for entering user information into medical devices. It is based on the problem of supporting the work of the attending medical personnel in the operation of medical devices and to ensure that unsuitable settings are not made inadvertently or accidentally for the concrete treatment situation in the operation of such medical devices. For this purpose a method and a device are proposed in which a second parameter value characterizing the medical device, entered into an input device is verified and depending on this verification it is ordered that the first or second parameter value or neither the first nor the second parameter value can be or is accepted into a control unit which controls the machine.

Claims

1. A method for user input into a medical device comprising the steps

output of a first parameter value characterizing the medical device or a message directed at the operator of the medical device, handwritten or oral input of a second parameter value characterizing the device or an instruction,

verification of the second parameter or the instruction,

depending on this verification, ordering that the first or the second parameter value or neither the first nor the second parameter value is or can be accepted for further processing in a control unit which controls the device or that the instruction is accepted into a control unit which controls the device.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the verification includes the fact that the second parameter value is verified for whether it matches the first parameter value or whether it is within certain limit values or whether the instruction is implementable.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the output is via a display or via a loudspeaker.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the input is made by handwriting on a touch-sensitive surface or orally via a microphone.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein, after the verification, at least one acoustic, haptic or optical signal is output, its perceptible property depending on the result of the verification.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein, based on the handwritten or oral input, the person making the handwritten or oral input is inferred.

14. A device consisting of a medical device with an input device, an output device and a control unit, which are equipped for output, on the output device, of a first parameter value characterizing the device or a message directed at the operator of the medical device to order it and to verify a second parameter value characterizing the device or an instruction entered by handwriting or orally via the input device and to accept or make acceptable the first or second parameter value or not to accept or make acceptable either the first or the second parameter value in the control unit of the fluid management machine depending on the result of the verification or to accept the instruction into a control unit which controls the device, said control unit being equipped for executing at least one method according to claim 1.

7. A device consisting of a medical device with an input device, an output device and a control unit, which are equipped for output, on the output device, of a first parameter value characterizing the device or a message directed at the operator of the medical device to order it and to verify a second parameter value characterizing the device or an instruction entered by handwriting or orally via the input device and to accept or make acceptable the first or second parameter value or not to accept or make acceptable either the first or the second parameter value in the control unit of the fluid management machine depending on the result of the verification or to accept the instruction into a control unit which controls the device.

8. The device according to claim 7, wherein the control unit is equipped to verify, in the verification, whether the second parameter value matches the first parameter value or whether it is within certain limit values or whether the instruction can be implemented.

9. The device according to claim 7, wherein the output device is a display or a loudspeaker.

10. The device according to claim 7, wherein the input device has a touch-sensitive surface or is a microphone.

11. The device according to claim 7, wherein the control unit is equipped to order the output of an acoustic, haptic and/or optical signal after the verification, such that the perceptible property of said signal depends on the result of the verification.

12. The device according to claim 7, wherein the control unit is equipped to infer the person having made the handwritten or oral input based on the handwritten or oral input.

13. The device according to claim 7, wherein the medical fluid management machine is a blood treatment machine and is equipped in particular for hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis or plasmapheresis.