Method of creating a report showing the time correlation between recorded medical events

• US 5,785,043 A
• Filed: 05/16/1996
• Issued: 07/28/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Heartstream, Inc. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Cole, Clinton S., Cyrus, Judith L., Gordon, Garry R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kamm, William E.
• Application Number:
  US08/648,778
• Time in Patent Office: 803 Days
• Field of Search: 128/710-712, 128/920
• US Class Current: 600/525
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/333 Recording apparatus specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3904 External heart defibrillators [EHD]
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/39044 in combination with cardiopulmonary resuscitation [CPR] therapy
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 3/02 with provision for altering or correcting the law of variation
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 9/005 Solid-state data loggers
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A method for displaying time-correlated medical event data including the steps of: providing time-correlated event data to a display device; selecting a first event to be displayed; and displaying the first event together with a time-correlated second event on the display device. In another embodiment, the invention is a method for displaying time-correlated medical event data including the steps of: manually entering data comprising a first event into a display device; time-correlating the first event with data comprising a second event collected by a medical device; and displaying the first event together with the second event on the display device. In yet another embodiment, the invention is a method of creating a report showing the time correlation between recorded medical events, the method comprising the steps of: connecting a memory device to a display device, the memory device comprising a clock; retrieving event data and time data from a memory device; reading a memory device time from the memory device clock; and using the memory device time to associate time with the event data.

Claims

1. A method of creating a report showing the time correlation between recorded medical events, the method comprising the steps of:

connecting a memory device to a display device, the memory device comprising a clock, event data and time data;

retrieving event data and time data from the memory device;

reading a memory device time from the memory device clock;

using the memory device time and the time data to associate time with the event data; and

creating a report showing time correlation between the event data.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising reading a display device time from a display device clocks the using step comprising using the display device time to associate time with the event data.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the event data and time data correlate a plurality of events, the retrieving step comprising retrieving a correlating factor for the event data from the memory device.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the correlating factor comprises a number of event records.