BREATHING APPARATUS HAVING A DISPLAY WITH USER SELECTABLE BACKGROUND

• US 20150199095A1
• Filed: 06/20/2012
• Published: 07/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Maquet Critical Care
• Original Assignee: Maquet Critical Care AB (Getinge AB)
• Inventors: Lahtivuori, Madlene, Sunna, Anette, Stone, Helena
• Granted Patent: US 10,296,181 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/0051 with alarm devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/021 operated by electrical means A61M16/202 – A61M16/205 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/18 with alarm
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3553 remote, e.g. between patient's home and doctor's office
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3584 using modem, internet or bluetooth
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/505 Touch-screens; Virtual keyboard or keypads; Virtual buttons; Soft keys; Mouse touches
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/52 with memories providing a history of measured variating parameters of apparatus or patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/583 by visual feedback
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/42 Rate
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2240/00 Specially adapted for neonatal use
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A breathing apparatus and system include a breathing apparatus having a display, an internal memory unit, and a processing unit, and optionally an interface for connecting at least an external memory unit to the apparatus; optionally an external memory unit connectable to the breathing apparatus via the interface; wherein the processing unit is in operative communication with the display, the internal memory unit, and/or the external memory unit when connected to the apparatus via the interface, and the processing unit is configured to provide on at least a portion of the display, a user selectable background stored on at least one of the internal and/or external memory unit, such as a background image, or a background color different than a factory default background color that is not selectable by a user.

Claims

1. A breathing apparatus system comprising:

a breathing apparatus having a display, an internal memory unit, and a processing unit, and optionally an interface for connecting at least an external memory unit to said apparatus

optionally an external memory unit connectable to said breathing apparatus via said interface; and

wherein said processing unit is in operative communication with said display, said internal memory unit, and/or said external memory unit when connected to said apparatus via said interface, and said processing unit is configured to provide on at least a portion of said display, a user selectable background stored on at least one of said internal memory unit and/or external memory unit, such as a background image, or a background color different than a factory default background color that is not selectable by a user.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said internal memory unit comprises at least one default background, wherein one background of a plurality of default backgrounds is selectable by said user.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said image comprises an animated portion, such as for illustrating an ongoing ventilation and/or breathing pattern of a patient connected to said apparatus.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein said animated portion is synchronized with the breathing pattern of said patient connected to said apparatus, and said visual clinical representation is optionally a visual clinical representation.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein said processing unit is configured to provide a first number of metrics and/or time curves of operational parameters of said breathing apparatus on said display in a first operational mode, and a second number of metrics and/or time curves of said operational parameters on said display in a second operational mode, wherein said second number is less than said first number;

and/or

wherein said display has a total display area, wherein said processing unit is configured to display a first number of metrics and/or time curves of operational parameters on substantially the entire display area in a first operational mode, and wherein said processing unit is configured to display at least a portion of said background image only on a display sub-area of said entire display area and/or opaquely or non-transparent behind a second number of said display metrics and/or time curves, less than said first number, in a second operational mode.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said internal and/or external memory unit is configured to store an image, and said processing unit is configured to provide a plurality of operational modes of said apparatus,

said operational modes including:

a first operational mode in which said processing unit is configured to display a first number of operational parameters on said display with a factory default background color for said first operational mode, and

an alternative, preferably user selectable, second operational mode in which a second number of operational parameters, preferably less than said first number, are displayed on said display and said processing unit is configured to display said image as a background image on said display behind said displayed operational parameters.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein said apparatus has a plurality of operational modes, and wherein said background is different in different operational modes,

and/or wherein said background is different for different patient categories, such as adult, pediatric, neonatal, and/or type of product.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein said processing unit is configured to display said image opaquely behind at least a portion of said display where a foreground object, such as said operational parameter values, is displayed.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein said apparatus comprises an interface for connection of an external memory unit having said image stored thereon, for access by said processing unit and/or transfer to an internal memory unit, wherein said image from said external memory unit is accessible from said external memory unit by said apparatus and displayable on said display as said background.

10. The system of claim 5, wherein said processing unit is configured to switch said apparatus from said first operational mode to said second operational mode only upon acknowledgement of a user, and wherein said processing unit is configured to control said display such that on a display area thereof a preview of said second operational mode is presented before said switching.

11. The system of claim 5, wherein said processing unit is configured to switch said apparatus from said second operational mode to said first operational mode without user acknowledgement, by touching said display when said display is a touch sensitive display.

12. The system of claim 5, wherein said processing unit is configured to provide an alarm in said second operational mode as a visual and acoustic indication, and a related text message, and to provide a remote alarm to clinical users via a network to which said apparatus is connected.

13. A method of internally controlling a display of a breathing apparatus, said method comprising providing a user selectable background for displaying on at least a portion of said display, such as a background image, or a background color different than a factory default background color that is not selectable by a user, wherein said background image is either selectable from at least one default image stored on an internal memory unit of said breathing apparatus, or from an external memory unit connectable to said breathing apparatus.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising,

switching between a plurality of operational modes of said apparatus, said operational modes including

a first operational mode in which a first number of operational parameters is displayed on said display without said image as said background, and

an alternative second operational mode in which a second number of operational parameters, preferably less than said first number, are displayed on said display and said background image is displayed as a background image on said display.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with programming instructions (90), said storage medium being loaded into a computerized control system of a breathing apparatus having a processing unit, and said programming instructions causing said computerized control unit to control a display unit of the breathing apparatus during operation by:

providing a user selectable background for displaying on at least a portion of said display, such as a background image, or a background color different than a factory default background color that is not selectable by a user, wherein said background image is either selectable from at least one default image stored on an internal memory unit of said breathing apparatus, or from an external memory unit connectable to said breathing apparatus,

and preferably switching between a plurality of operational modes of said apparatus, said operational modes including

a first operational mode in which a first number of operational parameters is displayed on said display without said image as said background, and

an alternative second operational mode in which a second number of operational parameters, preferably less than said first number, are displayed on said display and said background image is displayed as a background image on said display.