SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMS DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS INTERFACE

• US 20170053086A1
• Filed: 10/14/2016
• Published: 02/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Inventors: MARTIN, Michael Scott, ASHMORE, Chad, DEINES, Eric A., FREEMAN, Gary A., HELMICK, Joseph L., KAIB, Thomas E., RATTANNI, Richard A., REID, C. Shane, SOLLER, Jeremy Ryan, VOLPE, Shane S., RUGGIERO, Gary, GEHEB, Frederick J.
• Application Number:
  US15/294,633
• Publication Number:
  US 20170053086A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0006 ECG or EEG signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/024 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse rate or heart rate A61B5/0205, A61B5/021 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/318 Heart-related electrical modalities, e.g. electrocardiography [ECG]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6898 Portable consumer electronic devices, e.g. music players, telephones, tablet computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/747 in case of emergency, i.e. alerting emergency services
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A system for supplementing communications capabilities of a patient monitoring device, the system including a card fitting within a device slot and configured to receive patient monitoring information from the device via the interface slot; a memory device hosted by the card and configured to store patient monitoring information; a wireless transceiver hosted by the card; an asset management database hosted by the card; and a processor communicably coupled to the wireless transceiver and the asset management database, the processor configured to format the patient monitoring information into a stream of one or more frames, each of the one or more frames associated with an EMS incident during which the patient monitoring information was gathered, the processor further configured to store the one or more frames to the asset management database and to transmit the stream of one or more frames with the wireless transceiver.

Claims

1. A system for supplementing communications capabilities of a patient monitoring device configured to monitor a patient and to make available patient monitoring information, the patient monitoring device having a communications interface slot, the system comprising:

a card configured to fit within the communications interface slot and to receive the patient monitoring information from the patient monitoring device via the communications interface slot;

a memory device hosted by the card and configured to store the patient monitoring information;

a wireless transceiver hosted by the card;

an asset management database hosted by the card; and

a processor communicably coupled to the wireless transceiver and the asset management database, the processor configured to format the patient monitoring information into a stream of one or more frames, each of the one or more frames associated with an EMS incident during which the patient monitoring information was gathered, the processor further configured to store the one or more frames to the asset management database and to transmit the stream of one or more frames with the wireless transceiver.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to receive, via the wireless transceiver, a request for frames associated with a specific EMS incident, query the asset management database to retrieve all frames associated with the specific EMS incident, and to transmit the frames associated with the specific EMS incident with the wireless transceiver.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is restricted from editing the patient monitoring information on the memory device.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the patient monitoring device is configured to edit the patient monitoring information on the memory device.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein patient monitoring information from the patient monitoring device is bifurcated into a first stream and a second stream, wherein the memory card is configured to store the first stream, and wherein the processor is configured to receive the second stream.

6. A method for streaming patient information from a clinical device comprising:

establishing a wireless data connection with the clinical device;

receiving patient information from the clinical device via the wireless data connection at least once every five seconds; and

displaying at least a portion of the patient information in an emergency medical services mobile environment.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the clinical device is a defibrillator.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein receiving the patient information comprises receiving the patient information from the clinical device via the wireless data connection at least once every second.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the wireless data connection is a secure WiFi connection.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the patient information is clinical information, the method further comprising receiving non-clinical information and displaying the clinical information and the non-clinical information simultaneously in the emergency medical services mobile environment.

11. The method of claim 6, wherein the patient information comprises an ECG waveform.

12. The method of claim 6, wherein the patient information comprises a heart rate.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the patient information comprises an ECG waveform.

14. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving full disclosure data from the clinical device;

formatting the full disclosure data into a frame event stream, wherein the frame event stream comprises a plurality of frames in chronological order, wherein each of the plurality of frames comprises a time identifier, an incident identifier, and clinical information associated with a time identified by the time identifier and an incident identified by the incident identifier; and

sending the frame event stream over the wireless data connection as the patient information.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising storing the plurality of frames in a computer readable medium.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

sending a request over the wireless data connection, the request including a particular incident identifier;

retrieving from the computer readable medium and adding to a response set each of the plurality of frames for which the incident identifier corresponds to the particular incident identifier of the request; and

sending the response set over the wireless data connection.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising displaying at least a portion of the response set in the emergency medical services mobile environment.

18. The method of claim 6, wherein the wireless data connection is a first wireless data connection, the method further comprising:

transmitting the patient information via a second wireless data connection;

receiving the patient information with a personal mobile device via the second wireless data connection;

receiving, via the personal mobile device, a role indication; and

determining a portion of the patient information for display on the mobile device based on the role indication.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the role indication is CPR medic, and wherein the portion of the patient information comprises chest compression measurement data.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

receiving a patient intervention indication via the second wireless data connection from the personal mobile device.