Process and device for operating a respiration system

• US 8,012,099 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2006
• Issued: 09/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dragerwerk AG & Company KGaA (FPS Vermögensverwaltung GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Drager Medical GmbH (FPS Vermögensverwaltung GmbH)
• Inventors: Schermeier, Olaf, Klessaschek, Thomas, Zelk, Marco, Kellner, Bernd
• Primary Examiner(s): Marmor, II; Charles A
• Assistant Examiner(s): D'ANGELO, MICHAEL J
• Application Number:
  US11/534,572
• Publication Number:
  US 20070175471A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,810 Days
• Field of Search: 600/529, 600/531, 600/532, 600538-543, 12820418-20426
• US Class Current: 600/538
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/024 including calculation means, e.g. using a processor
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3561 local, e.g. within room or hospital
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3592 using telemetric means, e.g. radio or optical transmission
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/40 Respiratory characteristics

Abstract

A process for operating a respiration system (3) makes it possible, rapidly and with simple means, to operate the respiration system (3). The system and method use respiratory flow sensor-specific, patient- and/or treatment-related operating data and a respiratory flow sensor (1). A reading unit present in the respiration system (3) reads the contents of a transponder (2) connected to the respiratory flow sensor (1), so that the respiration system (3) is ready to operate only after the operating data have been read.

Claims

1. A process for operating a respiration system, the process comprising:

providing respiration system with a respiratory flow sensor;

providing an operating data storage device connected to said respiratory flow sensor, said operating data storage device being readable in a wireless manner;

providing a reading unit in the respiration system;

reading the contents of said operating data storage device for the respiration system, so that said respiration system is ready to operate only after the operating data have been read, wherein the operating data comprise identification data and/or quality data of said respiratory flow sensor for said respiration system, which data are compared by said respiration system with stored identification data and/or quality data, so that said respiration system is ready to operate only when the compared identification data agree;

selecting said at least one patient respiration mode; and

operating said respiration system such that said at least one patient respiration mode is executed after reading said contents of said operating data storage device, wherein a patient is respirated with said respiration system based on said contents of said operating data storage device, wherein said respiration system comprises at least one patient respiration mode, wherein an alarm or display is generated on said respiration system when said identification data and/or quality data of said respiratory flow sensor does not agree with said stored identification data and/or quality data, said respiration system not operating when said identification data and/or quality data of said respiratory flow sensor does not agree with said stored identification data and/or quality data.

2. A process in accordance with claim 1, wherein after the operation of said respiration system, current operating data of said respiration system are transferred into the means for storing operating data, which said means is connected to said respiratory flow sensor, in a wireless manner, and are stored.

3. A process in accordance with claim 1, wherein the operating data comprise patient-related and/or treatment-related data.

4. A process in accordance with claim 1, wherein the operating data comprise respiratory flow sensor-specific data or actual release data, so that the measured values of said respiratory flow sensor are used in said respiration system for the operation of said respiration system in a correspondingly corrected form.

5. A process in accordance with claim 1, wherein said operating data storage device, which is connected to said respiratory flow sensor, is a writable and/or readable transponder, and said reading unit present in said respiration system is combined with a writing unit for said transponder.

6. A process in accordance with claim 5, wherein said respiratory flow sensor is a hot-wire anemometer with a sensor housing made of a plastic and said transponder is connected to said sensor housing by means of a bonding agent.

7. A process in accordance with claim 1, wherein said respiratory flow sensor is a hot-wire anemometer with a sensor housing made of a plastic and said means for storing operating data is connected to said sensor housing by means of a bonding agent.

8. A process in accordance with claim 1, wherein said respiration system is an anesthesia apparatus or respirator, said respiration system comprising a tube element, said anesthesia apparatus or respirator comprising said reading unit, said tube element being connected to said anesthesia apparatus or respirator, said operating data storage device being arranged on said tube element.

9. A device for operating a respiration system, the device comprising:

a respiration system reading unit;

a respiratory flow sensor;

an operating data storage device that can be read in a wireless manner by said respiration system reading unit, said operating data storage device for storing operating data for said respiration system; and

a control means for controlling the respiration system such the respiration system is activated to respirate a patient after said respiration system reading unit processes said operating data, wherein the operating data comprise identification data and/or quality data of said respiratory flow sensor for said respiration system, and said data are compared by said respiration system with stored identification data and/or quality data, so that said respiration system is ready to operate only when the compared identification data and/or quality data agree.

10. A device according to claim 9, wherein said respiration system reading unit includes a wiring unit for writing data to said operating data storage device, said operating data storage device being a transponder.

11. A respiration system comprising:

a respiration system respiratory flow sensor;

an operating data storage device connected to said respiratory flow sensor, said operating data storage device being readable in a wireless manner;

a reading unit in the respiration system for reading data from said operating data storage device in a wireless manner;

a system control for releasing at least one mode of respiration of said respiration system for operation only after the operating data have been read via said reading unit, wherein said patient is respirated with said at least one mode of respiration based on said operating data, wherein the operating data comprise identification data and/or quality data of said respiratory flow sensor, and said data are compared by said system control with identification data and/or quality data, so that the respiration system is ready to operate only when the compared identification data and/or quality data agree.

12. A respiration system in accordance with claim 11, wherein after the operation of said respiration system, current operating data of said respiration system are transferred into the means for storing operating data, which said means is connected to said respiratory flow sensor, in a wireless manner, and are stored there.

13. A respiration system in accordance with claim 11, wherein the operating data comprise patient-related and/or treatment-related data.

14. A respiration system in accordance with claim 11, wherein the operating data comprise respiratory flow sensor-specific data or actual release data, so that the measured values of said respiratory flow sensor are used in said respiration system for the operation of said respiration system in a correspondingly corrected form.

15. A respiration system in accordance with claim 11, wherein

said operating data storage device is a transponder, which is connected to said respiratory flow sensor,

said transponder is a writable and/or readable transponder, and said reading unit is combined with a writing unit for writing to said transponder, wherein an alarm or display is generated on said respiration system when said identification data and/or quality data of said respiratory flow sensor does not agree with said stored identification data and/or quality data, said respiration system not operating when said identification data and/or quality data of said respiratory flow sensor does not agree with said stored identification data and/or quality data.

16. A respiration system in accordance with claim 15, wherein said respiratory flow sensor is a hot-wire anemometer with a sensor housing made of a plastic and said transponder is connected to said sensor housing by means of a bonding agent.

17. A respiration system in accordance with claim 11, wherein said respiration system further comprises an anesthesia apparatus or respirator and a tube element, said anesthesia apparatus or respirator comprising said reading unit, said tube element being connected to said anesthesia apparatus or respirator, said operating data storage device being arranged on said tube element.