Programmable electronic blood pressure monitoring labels

• US 5,482,049 A
• Filed: 03/16/1994
• Issued: 01/09/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Draeger Medical Systems Incorporated (Dragerwerk AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Medical Systems, Inc. (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Gordon, Stephen E., Staats, Stephen J., Addiss, Robert R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sykes, Angela D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NASSER, ROBERT L
• Application Number:
  US08/214,345
• Time in Patent Office: 664 Days
• Field of Search: 128/903, 128/904, 128/668, 128/672, 128/673, 128/675, 128/677-683, 128/687
• US Class Current: 600/486
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02158 provided with two or more sensor elements
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/903 Radio telemetry

Abstract

An electronic labeling and display system for displaying a user defined label created once by the user at a display monitor location and displayed at the remote sensing location and a display monitor.

Claims

1. In combination:

a patient monitoring device, which monitoring device is adapted for use with a plurality of blood pressure transducers adapted for coupling to a patient by associated fluid lines, each of said transducers producing electrical signals representing a different blood pressure of the patient, and which monitoring device includes, a display device for displaying the electrical signals from the transducers representing the different blood pressures of the patient, said display device having a display monitor including, (1) a microprocessor to control the display monitor for displaying the electrical signals representing the blood pressures of the patient, and (2) means for receiving the transmission of electrical signals representing the blood pressures of the patient from a remote connection block; and

a blood pressure labeling display system comprising,

(a) a remote connection block in close proximity to the patient for mechanically supporting the blood pressure transducers, comprising;

(1) a plurality of blood pressure programmable electronic display labels, each one of the plurality of blood pressure display labels adapted to be collocated with a corresponding one of the plurality of blood pressure transducers and their associated fluid lines;

(2) means for receiving the electrical signals representing the blood pressures of the patient from the transducers;

(3) means for transmitting the electrical signals representing the blood pressures of the patient to the display device from the means for receiving electrical signals; and

(4) means for receiving label data representing a plurality of selections of label content data from a predetermined menu made by a user and for receiving communications/character data for display on each of the plurality of blood pressure programmable electronic display labels;

(b) means for the user to input the plurality of selections of label content data made by the user for display on each of the plurality of blood pressure display labels on the remote connection block; and

(c) means for transmitting the plurality of selections of label content data made by the user to the programmable electronic display labels on the remote connection block.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein the display monitor further includes a plurality of display monitor display labels and wherein the plurality of selections of label content made by the user for display on each of the blood pressure display labels is transmitted to the plurality of display monitor display labels.

3. The combination of claim 1 wherein the means for the user to input the plurality of selections of label content data is located on the display monitor.

4. The combination of claim 3 wherein the means for the user to input the plurality of selections further includes means for receiving input commands from a wireless remote control.

5. The combination of claim 3 wherein the plurality of blood pressure programmable electronic display labels are liquid crystal displays, and further including a liquid crystal display controller for receiving command and character data from the display monitor and for sending timing signals which enable/disable each liquid crystal display.

6. The combination of claim 5 wherein the liquid crystal display controller is in the remote connection block.

7. The combination of claim 1 where the means for the user to input the plurality of selections of label content data is located on the remote connection block.

8. The combination of claim 1 wherein the display monitor further includes blood pressure signal processing circuitry for displaying the electrical signals from the remote connection block on the display monitor.

9. The combination of claim 1 wherein the remote connection block further includes blood pressure signal processing circuitry for storage of the electrical signals in the remote connection block.

10. The combination of claim 1 wherein the electrical signal output received from each transducer is transmitted through a respective amplifier channel which amplifies the electrical signal output and transmits said amplified output to a multiplexer with an analog/digital converter to multiplex the amplified outputs and analog/digital convert the amplified and multiplexed output and to serially transmit said amplified, converted and multiplexed output to the display monitor.

11. The combination of claim 1 wherein the means for transmission of the electrical signals representing the blood pressures of the patient to the display monitor includes a plurality of conductors for transmitting the electrical signals from each one of the plurality of blood pressure transducers along a corresponding one of the plurality of conductors from the remote connection block to the display monitor.