Method for setting alarm and wave indicating sensitivity

• US 4,994,790 A
• Filed: 08/30/1989
• Issued: 02/19/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fukuda Denshi Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Fukuda Denshi Company Limited
• Inventors: Ishii, Shoji, Yukimitsu, Yasuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Swann, III, Glen R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): MULLEN, THOMAS J
• Application Number:
  US07/400,625
• Time in Patent Office: 538 Days
• Field of Search: 340/573, 128/670-671, 128/721-723, 128/782
• US Class Current: 340/573.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02455 provided with high/low alarm devices

Abstract

A method for setting an alarm comprising, with the present time value, the upper limit and lower limit of the living body signal being indicated, the operation of setting the threshold of the upper limit or lower limit is carried out depressing the keys indicated, and a method for setting a wave indicating sensitivity comprising, with a plurality of keys for setting sensitivity indicated, depressing any one of the indicated keys.

Claims

1. A method for setting an alarm in an apparatus for monitoring a plurality of patients, having a keyboard with a plurality of keys, said method comprising the steps of:

indicating the present time value, the upper limit and lower limit of a living body signal of one of said patients; and

setting a threshold of the upper limit and the lower limit based upon the present time value of said living body signal by depressing appropriate ones of said keys.

2. A method for setting an alarm according to claim 1, wherein said indicating step is performed simultaneously for all of a plurality of patients.

3. A method for setting an alarm according to claim 1, wherein said indicating step is performed simultaneously regarding all of a plurality of parameters of each of said plurality of patients.

4. A method for setting an alarm according to claim 1, wherein said keys comprise a key for increasing the upper limit, a key for decreasing the upper limit, a key for increasing the lower limit, and a key for decreasing the lower limit.

5. A method for setting an alarm according to claim 1, wherein said step of setting the threshold may be performed automatically by depressing a key for setting automatically the upper limit and a key for setting automatically the lower limit of said living body signal.

6. A method for setting an alarm according to claim 1, wherein an indication of said alarm may be one of switched on and switched off.

7. A method for setting an alarm according to claim 1, wherein an indication of said alarm may be interrupted for a required time.

8. A method for setting a wave indicating sensitivity in an apparatus for monitoring a plurality of patients, having a keyboard with a plurality of keys, said method comprising the step of:

setting a wave indicating sensitivity by depressing any one of a plurality of indicated keys.

9. A method for setting a wave indicating sensitivity according to claim 8, wherein said setting step may be performed simultaneously for all of said plurality of patients.

10. A method for setting a wave indicating sensitivity according to claim 8, wherein said setting step may be performed simultaneously regarding all of a plurality of parameters of each of said plurality of patients.

11. A method for setting a wave indicating sensitivity according to claim 8, wherein said method further comprises a step of setting a position of the wave.

12. A method for setting a wave indicating sensitivity according to claim 8, wherein said setting step is performed sequentially in a direction in one of from a small sensitivity to a large sensitivity and from said large sensitivity to said small sensitivity, by depressing an appropriate one of said plurality of keys.

13. A method for setting a wave indicating sensitivity according to claim 8, wherein said setting step is performed in order cyclically, by one of from a small sensitivity to a large sensitivity and from said large sensitivity to said small sensitivity, by depressing an appropriate one of said plurality of keys.