PATIENT CARE SYSTEM WITH CONDITIONAL ALARM FORWARDING

• US 20180028742A1
• Filed: 08/11/2017
• Published: 02/01/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ICU Medical Incorporated
• Original Assignee: ICU Medical Incorporated
• Inventors: Day, William Kenneth, Lindo, Steve Joseph, Foryt, Paul John, Schmidt, Justin Joseph, Cousineau, Robert, Kremliovsky, Michael, Ramachandra, Sumant, Belkin, Anatoly S., Mills, Gary
• Granted Patent: US 10,300,194 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 2205/3592 using telemetric means, e.g. radio or optical transmission
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/52 with memories providing a history of measured variating parameters of apparatus or patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/142 Pressure infusion, e.g. using pumps
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0461 integrated or attached to an item closely associated with the person but not worn by the person, e.g. chair, walking stick, bed sensor
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients

Abstract

A patient care system is disclosed that includes a medical device such as an infusion pump. The medical device generates a data message containing information such as the status of the therapy being delivered, operating data or both. An alarm generating system assesses the data message from the pump and generates an alarm message if certain conditions established by a first set of rules are met. The alarm message is assessed according to a second set of rules as to whether to suppress the alarm message. The data message contains a required input for both the first and second algorithms. A dispatching system is adapted to forward the alarm message to an alarm destination according to a third set of rules. The alarm destination expresses an alarm upon receipt of the alarm message.

Claims

1-19. -19. (canceled)

20. A system for reducing audible alarms generated at an infusion pump, the system comprising:

a first computing system configured to interface with an infusion pump and connect over a network to a second computing system, the first computing system comprising one or more hardware processors configured to;

receive an alarm condition generated by an infusion pump;

transmit the alarm condition generated by the infusion pump to the second computing system over the network;

apply the alarm condition to a first set of rules for delaying the alarm;

delay, at the infusion pump, an audible alarm corresponding to the received alarm condition for a predetermined time period based on the application of the alarm condition;

display, at the infusion pump, a visual indication of the alarm condition;

determine that the alarm condition is present after the predetermined time period has elapsed; and

generate, at the infusion pump, the audible alarm based on the determination that the alarm condition is present after the predetermined time period has elapse.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to receive an electronic message from the second computing system and cancel the alarm condition based on the received electronic message.

22. The system of claim 20, wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to transmit the alarm condition to a clinician computing device designated for the infusion pump.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the one or more hardware processors are configured to change the clinician computing device designated for the infusion pump to a secondary clinician device, thereby enabling the secondary clinician device to monitor the infusion pump.

24. The system of claim 22, wherein the clinician computing device is changed in response to a request for change.

25. The system of claim 22, wherein the clinician computing device is changed in response to escalation of the alarm condition.

26. The system of claim 20, wherein the application comprises determining a clinical care area in which the infusion pump is located and

27. The system of claim 26, wherein the clinical care area is determined based on an identification data associated with the infusion pump.

28. The system of claim 20, wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to transmit the alarm condition to a third computing system different from the second computing system based on a determination that the transmission to the second computing system failed.

29. A method for reducing audible alarms generated at an infusion pump, the method comprising:

receiving, at a first computing system connected with an infusion pump, an alarm condition generated by an infusion pump;

transmitting the alarm condition generated by the infusion pump from the first computing system to a second computing system over a network;

applying the alarm condition to a first set of rules for delaying the alarm;

delaying, at the infusion pump, an audible alarm corresponding to the received alarm condition for a predetermined time period based on the application of the alarm condition;

displaying, at the infusion pump, a visual indication of the alarm condition;

determining that the alarm condition is present after the predetermined time period has elapsed; and

generating, at the infusion pump, the audible alarm based on the determination that the alarm condition is present after the predetermined time period has elapse.

30. The method of claim 29, further comprising receiving an electronic message from the second computing system and canceling the alarm condition based on the received electronic message.

31. The method of claim 29, further comprising transmitting the alarm condition to a clinician computing device designated for the infusion pump.

32. The method of claim 31, further comprising changing the clinician computing device designated for the infusion pump to a secondary clinician device, thereby enabling the secondary clinician device to monitor the infusion pump.

33. The method of claim 31, wherein the clinician computing device is changed in response to a request for change.

34. The method of claim 31, wherein the clinician computing device is changed in response to escalation of the alarm condition.

35. The method of claim 29, wherein the applying comprises determining a clinical care area in which the infusion pump is located and

36. The method of claim 35, wherein the clinical care area is determined based on an identification data associated with the infusion pump.

37. The method of claim 29, further comprising transmitting the alarm condition to a third computing system different from the second computing system based on a determination that the transmission to the second computing system failed.