Portable Patient Monitoring System Profile Switchover

• US 20150243148A1
• Filed: 07/31/2012
• Published: 08/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dragerwerk AG & Company KGaA (FPS Vermögensverwaltung GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Drager Medical GmbH (FPS Vermögensverwaltung GmbH)
• Inventors: Faucette, Richard, Braley, Jason
• Granted Patent: US 9,489,816 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0266 for monitoring or limiting apparatus function
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0456 Apparatus provided with a docking unit
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02055 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular condition and temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/746 Alarms related to a physiological condition, e.g. details of setting alarm thresholds or avoiding false alarms alarms per se G08B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/40 for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

Portable patient monitoring systems are provided that include profiles that can be selectively overwritten with profiles stored in or otherwise accessible by docking stations that can mate with the portable patient monitoring systems. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a portable patient monitoring system to couple to at least one physiological sensor measuring physiological attributes of a patient, the portable patient monitoring system comprising a display to display data characterizing the measured physiological attributes, at least one data processor, and memory for storing at least one profile specifying settings for a plurality of operational parameters of the patient monitoring system, the portable patient monitoring system configured to dock with a docking station, the docking station comprising memory for storing at least one profile specifying settings for a plurality of operational parameters of a patient monitoring system;

wherein in response to detection of a docking event, and without human intervention;

the profile stored in the memory of the portable patient monitoring system is overwritten with the profile stored in the memory of the docking station when the patient monitoring system is docked to the docking station and when certain conditions are not met, and

the profile stored in the memory of the patient monitoring system continues to be used by the patient monitoring system when the patient monitoring system is docked to the docking station and when the certain conditions are met;

wherein the docking event is a mechanical mating of the portable patient monitoring system with the docking station or a power cycle by one or more of the portable patient monitoring system or the docking station.

2. A system as in claim 1, further comprising the docking station.

3. A system as in claim 1, wherein each profile comprises a profile identification (ID) that includes a profile checksum and a profile name.

4. A system as in claim 1, wherein each profile comprises a profile identification (ID) that includes a unique identifier.

5. A system as in claim 4, wherein the unique identifier is selected from a group consisting of:

a globally unique identifier, a concatenation of two or more values, and a hash of one or more values.

6. A system as in claim 3 to 5, wherein the profile name comprises a unique identifier corresponding to the docking station.

7. A system as in claim 3 to 5, wherein the certain conditions are met when the profile ID of the docking station matches the profile ID of the patient monitoring system.

8. A system as in claim 1, wherein the display provides a visual indication when the profile stored in the memory of the portable patient monitoring system is overwritten with the profile stored in the memory of the docking station.

9. A system as in claim 8, wherein the portable patient monitoring system comprises an interface that provides a prompt seeking user-generated input to approve the overwriting of the profile in the portable patient monitoring system with the profile stored in the memory of the docking station.

10. A system as in claim 1, wherein one or more of the portable patient monitoring system and the docking station stores two or more profiles.

11. A system as in claim 10, wherein contextual data is used to determine which of the two or more profiles to use by the portable patient monitoring system.

12. A system as in claim 1, wherein the docking station is coupled to a communications network for updating the profile stored in the memory of the docking station.

13. A system as in claim 1, wherein the operational parameters are selected from a group consisting of:

alarm thresholds, patient information, patient category, speaker volume, alarm delay, pacer mode, parameter color, heart rate source, tone source, tone volume, vertical scale of waveform, ECG filtering on/off, invasive blood pressure filtering on/off, pacer detection on/off, QRS sync marker on/off, and bar graph on/off.

14. (canceled)

15. A method comprising:

detecting a docking event between a portable patient monitoring system and a docking station,

wherein the portable patient monitoring system is coupled to at least one physiological sensor measuring physiological attributes of a patient and comprises a display to display data characterizing the measured physiological attributes, at least one data processor, and memory for storing at least one profile specifying settings for a plurality of operational parameters of the patient monitoring system; and

wherein the docking station is configured to receive the portable patient monitoring system and comprises memory for storing at least one profile specifying settings for a plurality of operational parameters of a patient monitoring system;

overwriting a profile stored in the memory of the portable patient monitoring system with the profile stored in the memory of the docking station when certain conditions are not met; and

maintaining the profile stored in the memory of the patient monitoring system and used by the patient monitoring system when the certain conditions are met;

wherein the docking event is a mechanical mating of the portable patient monitoring system with the docking station or a power cycle by one or more of the portable patient monitoring system or the docking station.

16. A method as in claim 15, wherein each profile comprises a profile identification (ID) that includes a profile checksum and a profile name.

17. A method as in claim 15, wherein each profile comprises a profile identification (ID) that includes a unique identifier.

18. A method as in claim 17, wherein the unique identifier is selected from a group consisting of:

a globally unique identifier, a concatenation of two or more values, and a hash of one or more values.

19. A method as in claim 16, wherein the profile name comprises a unique identifier corresponding to the docking station.

20. A method as in claim 16, wherein the certain conditions are met when the profile ID of the docking station matches the profile ID of the patient monitoring system.

21. A method as in claim 15 further comprising:

displaying a visual indication in the display when the profile stored in the memory of the portable patient monitoring system is overwritten with the profile stored in the memory of the docking station.

22. A method as in claim 21 further comprising:

prompting, via an interface of the portable patient monitoring system, a user to approve the overwriting of the profile in the portable patient monitoring system with the profile stored in the memory of the docking station.

23. A method as in claim 15, wherein one or more of the portable patient monitoring system and the docking station stores two or more profiles.

24. A method as in claim 23, wherein contextual data is used to determine which of the two or more profiles to use by the portable patient monitoring system.

25. A method as in claim 15, wherein the docking station is coupled to a communications network for updating the profile stored in the memory of the docking station, the method further comprising:

accessing, by the docking station, a remote computing system via the communications network in response to the docking event.

26. A method as in claim 15, wherein the operational parameters are selected from a group consisting of:

alarm thresholds, patient information, patient category, speaker volume, alarm delay, pacer mode, parameter color, heart rate source, tone source, tone volume, vertical scale of waveform, ECG filtering on/off, invasive blood pressure filtering on/off, pacer detection on/off, QRS sync marker on/off, and bar graph on/off.

27. A method as in claim 15, wherein the docking event is a mechanical mating of the portable patient monitoring system with the docking station or a power failure by one or more of the portable patient monitoring system or the docking station.

28-30. -30. (canceled)

31. A system comprising:

a docking station configured to dock with a portable patient monitoring system, the docking station comprising memory for storing at least one profile specifying settings for a plurality of operational parameters of a patient monitoring system, the portable patient monitoring system being configured to couple to at least one physiological sensor measuring physiological attributes of a patient, the portable patient monitoring system comprising a display to display data characterizing the measured physiological attributes, at least one data processor, and memory for storing at least one profile specifying settings for a plurality of operational parameters of the patient monitoring system;

wherein in response to detection of a docking event;

the profile stored in the memory of the portable patient monitoring system is overwritten with the profile stored in the memory of the docking station when the patient monitoring system is docked to the docking station and when certain conditions are not met, and

the profile stored in the memory of the patient monitoring system continues to be used by the patient monitoring system when the patient monitoring system is docked to the docking station and when the certain conditions are met;

wherein the docking event is a mechanical mating of the portable patient monitoring system with the docking station or a power cycle by one or more of the portable patient monitoring system or the docking station.