System and method for determining safety alert conditions for implantable medical devices
First Claim
1. A diagnostic method for use with an implantable medical device system having one or more components, the method comprising:
- storing one or more identifiers in a data structure within the implantable medical device system, the identifiers comprising data identifying at least one of the one or more components in the implantable medical device system;
storing safety alert information in a memory within an external programmer;
transmitting one of the identifier data and the safety alert information between the implantable medical device system and the external programmer;
comparing the identifier data with the received safety alert information to determine if one or more identifiers are related to the safety alert information; and
notifying a user of relevant safety alert information upon determining that one or more of the identifiers is related to the safety alert information.
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Abstract
A system and method for identifying and displaying safety alert advisories. The system of the present invention automatically performs a comparison of identification data with a safety alert advisory. The system stores identification data in a plurality of dedicated fields. Each of the dedicated fields contains information related to the patient. Upon the telemetric retrieval of the data by an external programmer, the external programmer automatically cross-correlates the data in the dedicated fields with the safety alert advisories. Upon identification of a match between the data and one of the safety alert advisories, the identified safety alert advisory is displayed to a medical practitioner. In addition, the system provides a dedicated memory to store an advisory flag. The advisory flag is marked when the programmer identifies a safety alert condition that is relevant to one of the dedicated fields. When a subsequent external programmer retrieves the data from the dedicated fields, the external programmer can notify the medical practitioner that a safety alert advisory exists even though the safety alert advisory was never directly input into the subsequent external programmer.
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1. A diagnostic method for use with an implantable medical device system having one or more components, the method comprising:
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storing one or more identifiers in a data structure within the implantable medical device system, the identifiers comprising data identifying at least one of the one or more components in the implantable medical device system;
storing safety alert information in a memory within an external programmer;
transmitting one of the identifier data and the safety alert information between the implantable medical device system and the external programmer;
comparing the identifier data with the received safety alert information to determine if one or more identifiers are related to the safety alert information; and
notifying a user of relevant safety alert information upon determining that one or more of the identifiers is related to the safety alert information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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