Icterus Meter And Icterus Meter Output Method

• US 20150335273A1
• Filed: 06/17/2013
• Published: 11/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Inventors: YASHIRO, Takehiro, TATEDA, Norihiro
• Application Number:
  US14/412,163
• Publication Number:
  US 20150335273A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/00988 Means for storing information, e.g. calibration constants, or for preventing excessive use, e.g. usage, service life counter
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/04 Babies, e.g. for SIDS detection
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0456 Apparatus provided with a docking unit
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0059 using light, e.g. diagnosis by transillumination, diascopy, fluorescence A61B5/0093, A61B5/1455, A61B5/02416 and A61B5/0261 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14546 for measuring analytes not otherwise provided for, e.g. ions, cytochromes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1455 using optical sensors, e.g. spectral photometrical oximeters
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0627 Dose monitoring systems and methods
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0644 Handheld applicators
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0667 Filters
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 5/0621 Hyperbilirubinemia, jaundice treatment

Abstract

Disclosed are a jaundice meter and an output method for the jaundice meter, wherein input therapeutic information regarding a medical treatment and a measured degree of jaundice are stored in the storage unit in mutually associate relation, and, when outputting the degree of jaundice as a measurement result, the therapeutic information stored in the storage unit can be output from the output unit, together with the degree of jaundice.

Claims

1. A jaundice meter comprising:

a jaundice measurement unit configured to measure a degree of jaundice by using light;

an input unit configured to allow therapeutic information regarding a medical treatment for a measurement target to be input therethrough;

a storage unit configured to store therein the therapeutic information input through the input unit, and the degree of jaundice measured by the jaundice measurement unit, in mutually associated relation; and

an output unit configured to, when outputting the degree of jaundice measured by the jaundice measurement unit, output the therapeutic information stored in the storage unit, together with the degree of jaundice.

2. The jaundice meter as defined in claim 1, wherein the therapeutic information includes phototherapy information indicative of whether or not a phototherapy as a medical treatment for jaundice symptoms has been implemented for the measurement target.

3. The jaundice meter as defined in claim 1, wherein the therapeutic information includes attention information indicative of how much attention should be paid to the measurement target.

4. The jaundice meter as defined in claim 1, wherein the output unit comprises a display configured to display the therapeutic information on a screen.

5. The jaundice meter as defined in claim 1, wherein the input unit comprises an identifier input section configured to allow an identifier for specifying and identifying the measurement target to be input therethrough, and wherein

the storage unit is configured to store the identifier of the measurement target input through the identifier input section, in associated relation to the therapeutic information and the degree of jaundice, and

the output unit is configured to, when outputting the degree of jaundice measured by the jaundice measurement unit, output the identifier of the measurement target input through the identifier input section, and the therapeutic information stored in the storage unit in associated relation with the identifier of the measurement target, together with the degree of jaundice.

6. The jaundice meter as defined in claim 1, which further comprises an output control section configured to cause an identifier of the measurement target stored in the storage unit, and the therapeutic information stored in the storage unit in associated relation with the identifier of the measurement target, to be output to the output unit.

7. The jaundice meter as defined in claim 6, wherein the output control section is configured to cause the identifier of the measurement target stored in the storage unit, and the therapeutic information stored in the storage unit in associated relation with the identifier of the measurement target, to be output to the output unit in the form of a list for a plurality of different identifiers.

8. The jaundice meter as defined in claim 1, wherein the output unit comprises an interface unit configured to allow information to be output to an external device therethrough.

9. An output method for a jaundice meter, comprising the steps of:

measuring a degree of jaundice by using light;

inputting therapeutic information regarding a medical treatment for a measurement target;

storing the therapeutic information input, and the degree of jaundice measured, in associated relation with each other; and

outputting the therapeutic information stored in the storage unit, together with the degree of jaundice.