EMERGENCY CALL APPARATUS, EMERGENCY CALL SYSTEM AND BACKUP METHOD THEREOF

• US 20170238801A1
• Filed: 02/23/2016
• Published: 08/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Melten Corporation
• Original Assignee: Melten Corporation
• Inventors: Su, Shih-Hsien, Liu, Han-Wu
• Granted Patent: US 9,839,354 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0015 characterised by features of the telemetry system
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1115 Monitoring leaving of a patient support, e.g. a bed or a wheelchair
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/747 in case of emergency, i.e. alerting emergency services
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

An emergency call apparatus, an emergency call system and a backup method thereof are provided. The emergency call system includes a bedside station, a managing server and at least one target device. In the method, the bedside station detects a triggering signal of an emergency call and then detects a network connection with the managing server. In response to detecting the network connection is connected, the bedside station transmits a request of the emergency call to the managing server and establishes an emergency call connection with the at least one target device according to connection information of the at least one target device stored in the managing server. In response to detecting the network connection is disconnected, the bedside station establishes the emergency call connection with the target device according to a backup of the connection information of the target device stored in the bedside station.

Claims

1. An emergency call apparatus, comprising:

a bedside station, disposed on a panel of a gas supply system, and configured to be powered by one of a network cable and a power source of the gas supply system and make at least one target device present an emergency call, wherein the gas supply system is mounted on a wall alongside a hospital bed for supplying medical gases.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the bedside station comprises:

a network connecting device, configured to connect a network;

a storage device, configured to store connection information of the at least one target device; and

a processor, configured to establish an emergency call connection for presenting the emergency call with the at least one target device through the network according to the connection information.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the bedside station further comprises:

at least one interface device, configured to connect with at least one patient monitoring device and receive patient related data detected by the at least one patient monitoring device, wherein

the processor is configured to transmit the patient related data to the at least one target device through the network.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the storage device is configured to store the patient related data.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one target device comprises a pager, a watch, a phone, a tablet, a computer, a corridor indicator, a number calling machine, a caption machine, a medical cart, or a hospital bed.

6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the connection information comprises a phone number, an internet protocol address, an email address, a uniform resource locator, or a service set identifier.

7. An emergency call system, comprising:

at least one target device, respectively configured to present an emergency call; and

a bedside station, disposed on a panel of a gas supply system, and configured to be powered by one of a network cable and a power source of the gas supply system and establish an emergency call connection for presenting the emergency call with the at least one target device, wherein the gas supply system is mounted on a wall alongside a hospital bed for supplying medical gases.

8. The system as claimed in claim 7, further comprising:

a managing server, configured to store connection information of the at least one target device.

9. The system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the bedside station is configured to backup the connection information of the at least one target device stored in the managing server.

10. The apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the connection information comprises a phone number, an internet protocol address, an email address, a uniform resource locator, or a service set identifier.

11. The system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the bedside station is configured to detect a network connection with the managing server and establish the emergency call connection with the at least one target device according to a backup of the connection information of the at least one target device stored in the bedside station in response to detecting the network connection is disconnected.

12. The system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the bedside station is configured to detect a network connection with the managing server, receive patient related data from at least one patient monitoring device, store the patient related data in response to detecting the network connection is disconnected, and upload the patient related data to the managing server in response to detecting the network connection is recovered.

13. The system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the at least one target device comprises a pager, a watch, a phone, a tablet, a computer, a corridor indicator, a number calling machine, a caption machine, a medical cart, or a hospital bed.

14. A backup method of an emergency call system, wherein the emergency call system comprises a bedside station, a managing server and at least one target device, the method comprising:

detecting a triggering signal of an emergency call by the bedside station;

detecting a network connection with the managing server by the bedside station;

in response to detecting the network connection is connected, transmitting a request of the emergency call to the managing server by the bedside station and establishing an emergency call connection with the at least one target device by the bedside station according to connection information of the at least one target device stored in the managing server; and

in response to detecting the network connection is disconnected, establishing the emergency call connection with the at least one target device by the bedside station according to a backup of the connection information of the at least one target device stored in the bedside station.

15. The method as claimed in claim 14, further comprising:

backuping the connection information of the at least one target device stored in the managing server periodically by the bedside station.

16. The method as claimed in claim 14, further comprising:

receiving patient related data from at least one patient monitoring device by the bedside station;

storing the patient related data in a storage device of the bedside station in response to detecting the network connection is disconnected; and

uploading the patient related data to the managing server by the bedside station in response to detecting the network connection is connected.

17. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the at least one target device comprises a pager, a watch, a phone, a tablet, a computer, a corridor indicator, a number calling machine, a caption machine, a medical cart, or a hospital bed.

18. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the connection information comprises a phone number, an internet protocol address, an email address, a uniform resource locator, or a service set identifier.