REMOTE MEDICAL DEVICE ALARM

• US 20180110996A1
• Filed: 12/13/2017
• Published: 04/26/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Inventors: Kaib, Thomas E., Volpe, Shane S., Rattanni, Richard A.
• Granted Patent: US 10,159,849 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/01 Measuring temperature of body parts ; Diagnostic temperature sensing, e.g. for malignant or inflamed tissue clinical contact thermometers G01K13/20
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02438 with portable devices, e.g. worn by the patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14542 for measuring blood gases A61B5/14551 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7405 using sound
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7455 characterised by tactile indication, e.g. vibration or electrical stimulation
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3993 User interfaces for automatic external defibrillators
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0277 Communication between units on a local network, e.g. Bluetooth, piconet, zigbee, Wireless Personal Area Networks [WPAN]
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 3/10 using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission

Abstract

A wearable remote device includes a user interface, a strap configured to removably secure the wearable remote device to a wrist of a patient such that the user interface is accessible by the patient, and a wireless transceiver configured to wirelessly communicate with a wearable defibrillator. The wearable remote device includes a processor coupled to the user interface and wireless transceiver to provide a notification relating to at least one of device information relating to the wearable defibrillator and a cardiac arrhythmia communicated by the wearable defibrillator via the wireless transceiver. Responsive to a determination that the notification is of an urgent nature, the processor is configured to cause the user interface to communicate the notification, and responsive to a determination that the notification is not of an urgent nature, cause the user interface to store information relating to the notification in a memory of the wearable remote device.

Claims

1-30. -30. (canceled)

31. A wearable remote device comprising:

a user interface;

a strap constructed to removably secure the wearable remote device to a wrist of a patient such that the user interface is accessible by the patient;

a wireless transceiver for wirelessly communicating with a wearable defibrillator; and

a processor, coupled to the user interface and the wireless transceiver, the processor causing the user interface to provide a notification relating to at least one of device information relating to the wearable defibrillator and a cardiac arrhythmia of the patient based on a communication received from the wearable defibrillator via the wireless transceiver,

wherein the processor is configured to determine whether the notification relating to the at least one of the device information relating to the wearable defibrillator and the cardiac arrhythmia is of an urgent nature, and responsive to a determination that the notification is of an urgent nature, causing the user interface to communicate the notification, and responsive to a determination that the notification is not of an urgent nature, causing the user interface to store information relating to the notification in a memory of the wearable remote device.

32. The wearable remote device of claim 31, wherein the wireless transceiver includes at least one of a radiofrequency transceiver, a BLUETOOTH transceiver, a wireless Ethernet transceiver, a wireless USB transceiver, and a ZIGBEE transceiver.

33. The wearable remote device of claim 31, further comprising a sensor disposed in the wearable remote device, the sensor including at least one of a pulse rate sensor, a body temperature sensor, and a blood oxygen level sensor.

34. The wearable remote device of claim 31, wherein the user interface includes at least one of a display, a user interactive display, a button, an audio output device, and an electro-mechanical vibrator.

35. The wearable remote device of claim 31, wherein the user interface includes one or more buttons disposed on a housing of the wearable remote device for receiving input from the patient.

36. The wearable remote device of claim 31, wherein the user interface includes at least one user response button disposed on the wearable remote device that can be actuated by the patient to acknowledge the notification.

37. The wearable remote device of claim 36, wherein responsive to the patient acknowledging the notification, the wearable remote device transmits an acknowledgement of the notification to the wearable defibrillator.

38. The wearable remote device of claim 36, wherein responsive to a lack of acknowledgement by the patient, the processor causes the user interface repeat the notification with different characteristics.

39. The wearable remote device of claim 31, wherein the user interface includes a display disposed on a housing of the wearable remote device, and wherein the processor causes the display to display a visual notification relating to the at least one of the device information relating to the wearable defibrillator and the cardiac arrhythmia of the patient.

40. The wearable remote device of claim 31, wherein the user interface includes an audio output device disposed in the wearable remote device, and wherein the processor causes the audio output device to provide an audible notification relating to the at least one of the device information relating to the wearable defibrillator and the cardiac arrhythmia of the patient.

41. The wearable remote device of claim 40, wherein the audible notification includes at least one of an audible alarm siren or tone, a voice message, and a voice prompt.

42. The wearable remote device of claim 40, wherein the user interface further includes a display disposed on a housing of the wearable remote device, and wherein the processor further causes the display to display a visual notification relating to the at least one of the device information relating to the wearable defibrillator and the cardiac arrhythmia of the patient.

43. The wearable remote device of claim 42, wherein the notification relates to device information relating to the wearable defibrillator, the device information identifying a state of charge on a battery powering the wearable defibrillator.

44. The wearable remote device of claim 42, wherein the notification relates to device information relating to the wearable defibrillator, the device information identifying a number of sensors associated with the wearable defibrillator have fallen off or lost contact with the body of the patient.

45. The wearable remote device of claim 42, wherein the notification relates to a cardiac arrhythmia of the patient and at least one of the visual notification and the audible notification indicates the cardiac arrhythmia has been detected and a shock is to be delivered by the wearable defibrillator.

46. The wearable remote device of claim 45, wherein the user interface further includes at least one user response button disposed on the wearable remote device that can be actuated by the patient to communicate a condition of the patient to the wearable defibrillator in response to the notification relating to the cardiac arrhythmia.

47. The wearable remote device of claim 46, wherein the at least one of the visual notification and the audible notification further prompts the patient to actuate the at least one user response button to withhold the shock from being delivered by the wearable defibrillator.

48. The wearable remote device of claim 47, wherein, responsive to the patient actuating the at least one user response button, the processor sends a communication to the wearable defibrillator via the wireless transceiver instructing the wearable defibrillator to withhold the shock.

49. The wearable remote device of claim 46, further comprising at least one of a telephone communication interface, a cellular communication interface, and a wireless computer network communication interface.

50. The wearable remote device of claim 49, wherein, the at least one processor further causes the at least one of the telephone communication interface, the cellular communication interface, and the wireless computer network interface to communicate a message to at least one of emergency personnel at a remote location, a medical service provider of the patient, and a loved one or relative of the patient.

51. The wearable remote device of claim 50, wherein the message identifies at least one of an identity of the patient, a medical condition of the patient, and a physical location of the patient.