System for monitoring medical parameters

• US 7,161,484 B2
• Filed: 04/16/2002
• Issued: 01/09/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mircel Medical Devices S.A.
• Original Assignee: Micrel Medical Devices S.A.
• Inventors: Tsoukalis, Alexandre
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, HUNG T
• Application Number:
  US10/475,042
• Publication Number:
  US 20050017864A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,729 Days
• Field of Search: 340/573.1, 340/539.1, 340/539.12, 340/539.13, 340/539.17, 340/539.19, 340/825.49, 340/825.69, 128/700, 128/701, 128/715, 128/903, 600/300, 600/301, 600/309, 600/841
• US Class Current: 340/539.12
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0219 of externally powered implanted units
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0412 Low-profile patch shaped housings
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1112 Global tracking of patients, e.g. by using GPS
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1135 by monitoring thoracic expansion
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14552 Details of sensors specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6826 Finger
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6838 Clamps or clips
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

Described is a system for monitoring medical parameters of a being, in particular a human being, comprising medical functional means including at least one sensor section for detecting at least one predetermined medical parameter, a transmitting means for transmitting the medical parameter(s) detected by said sensor section, said transmitting means being adapted to be provided at the being, and a remote serving means for receiving and processing the medical parameter(s) from said transmitting means and providing instructions and/or data on the basis of the processed medical parameters.

Claims

1. A system for monitoring medical parameters of a being, in particular a human being, comprising:

medical functional means including at least one sensor section for detecting at least one predetermined medical parameter;

a transmitting means for transmitting the at least one predetermined medical parameter detected by said at least one sensor section, said transmitting means being adapted to be provided at the being;

a remote serving means for receiving and processing the at least one predetermined medical parameter from said transmitting means and providing at least one of instructions and data on the basis of the processed medical parameter, wherein

said medical functional means is adapted to create pre-alarm signals providing health qualification information, and wherein

said medical functional means is adapted to transmit said pre-alarm signals, and wherein

said remote serving means is adapted to process said pre-alarm signals.

2. The system according to claim 1,

wherein said remote serving means is adapted to give an alarm in case of a predetermined frequency of said pre-alarm signals.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein said transmitting means is connected with said remote serving means via a network wireless connection.

4. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a receiving means for receiving the at least one of instructions and data from said remote serving means, said receiving means being adapted to be provided at the being.

5. The system according to claim 4, further comprising a communication device, wherein at least parts of said transmitting means and said receiving means form said communication device.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein said transmitting means comprises an interface means connected with said communication device for receiving the at least one medical parameter from said medical functional means.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein said receiving means comprises an interface means connected with said communication device for transmitting the at least one of instructions and data received from remote serving means to said medical functional means.

8. The system according to claim 4, wherein said receiving means is connected with said remote serving means via a network wireless connection.

9. The system according to claim 4, wherein said medical functional means includes a receiving section for wireless connection with said receiving means.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein said medical functional means includes a transmitting section for wireless connection with said transmitting means.

11. The system according to claim 1, wherein said medical functional means includes a power source.

12. The system according to at least claim 1, wherein said medical functional means includes a passive telemetry power section for receiving external remote power.

13. The system according to claim 1, wherein said at least one sensor section comprises at least one of a blood gas pulse oximeter analyzer and metabolic parameters pulse oximeter analyzer.

14. The system according to claim 13, wherein said pulse oximeter analyzer locally processes and measures at least one of SO₂, PO₂, PCO₂, PH, HCO₃, N₂with ill least one of multi wavelength measurements and preferably multivariate analysis.

15. The system according to claim 13, wherein said pulse oximeter analyzer extracts at least one of heart arrhythmia information, beats per minute and relative blood pressure.

16. The system according to claim 1, wherein said at least one sensor section comprises at least one ECG monitor, in the form of two connecting parts, a Laplacian Electrode consumable pad, comprising two or more concentric cyclic electrodes having a shape of at least a portion of a cycle connecting on top with non consumable self-powered electronic part˜

, comprising analog, digital, and PAN parts.

17. The system according to claim 16, wherein said digital part filters and locally analyses ECG waveforms, extracting at least one of medical useful information and symptoms, by at least one of standard signal processing, fuzzy logic and neural networks type, detecting known cardiac abnormalities, including at least one of arrhythmia types, early detection of ischemia and deterioration of ischemia.

18. The system according to claim 16, comprising a plurality of ECG monitors, wherein the corresponding waveforms are synchronized by real time clock reference using digital PAN, wherein a multi-waveform ECG is reconstructed and used for at least one of vector and other analysis, at least part of which is done remotely by said remote serving means.

19. The system according to claim 1, wherein said at least one sensor section comprises an implantable ECG detector combined with a temperature sensor, getting power from external RFID signals and passively transmitting back at least one of signals and symptoms information processed on site, having internal wire connection to parts of the body.

20. The system according to claim 1, wherein said sensor section comprises a watch inflatable type pressure sensor, which has a wire connected wrist belt ECG electrode for at least one hand.

21. The system according to claim 1, wherein said at least one sensor section comprises an implantable passive telemetry pressure sensor.

22. The system according to claim 1, wherein said at least one sensor section comprises a respiration sensor of inductive plethysmograph type for detecting cardiac output.

23. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display means for displaying the at least one of instructions and data provided by said remote serving means.

24. The system according to claim 23, said communication device comprising said display means.

25. The system according to claim 1, wherein said medical functional means comprises an infusion pump, being adjusted so as to be controlled by the at least one of instructions and data provided by said remote serving means.

26. The system according to claim 13, wherein the at least one sensor section comprises a self contained finger ring with a light path to be located under a finger bone, the ring shape disabling rotation, and having light blocking flexible curtains at both sides.

27. The system according to claim 16, wherein the consumable pad is combined with at least one of a reflective type pulse oximeter, strain gauge for breath detection, and temperature sensor.