Medical system

• US 8,547,231 B2
• Filed: 06/28/2007
• Issued: 10/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dragerwerk AG & Company KGaA (FPS Vermögensverwaltung GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Drager Medical GmbH (FPS Vermögensverwaltung GmbH)
• Inventors: Schermeier, Olaf, Wotha, Gerd, Otto, Andreas
• Primary Examiner(s): Mehmood, Jennifer
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jiang, Yong Hang
• Application Number:
  US12/517,144
• Publication Number:
  US 20110001611A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,287 Days
• Field of Search: 340/10.1, 340/10.5, 340/10.51, 340/10.6, 340/10.2, 340/10.3, 340/572.1, 340/573.1
• US Class Current: 340/572.1
• 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 5/08 Detecting, measuring or recording devices for evaluating the respiratory organs A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/082 Evaluation by breath analysis, e.g. determination of the chemical composition of exhaled breath A61B5/083, A61B5/091 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/021 operated by electrical means A61M16/202 – A61M16/205 take precedence
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/28 the pass enabling tracking or indicating presence
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

The invention relates to a medical system (1) with a monitoring station (3) and at least one medical work station (5, 7). The medical work station (5, 7) is designed to gather physiological data of a patient (4). The invention is characterized in that the at least one medical work station (5, 7) comprises a respiratory device (43, 60) with a connection (49, 51, 72, 74) for a respiratory hose (53, 57). The medical work station (5, 7) comprises a radio frequency detection unit (45, 68), which is designed for detecting a radio frequency marking (55) connected with a respiratory hose in the region of the connection for a respiratory hose, and to create a marking signal, representing the marking information. The medical system (1) is designed to associated the physiological data and the patient data, particularly the data set representing the physiological data and the patient data set, with each other, as a function of the marking signal.

Claims

1. A medical system (1) with a monitoring station (3) and with at least one medical workstation (5, 7), the at least one medical workstation (5, 7) being designed to acquire physiological data of a patient and the at least one medical workstation (5, 7) being operatively connected to the monitoring station (3), and the at least one medical workstation (5, 7) being designed to generate a data signal representing the physiological data and to send said data signal to the monitoring station (3), the monitoring station (3) being designed to receive the data signal and having a memory (19, 20) for at least one patient data record (22, 24) representing the patient data and at least one display unit for displaying the physiological data (25, 26) and the patient data (22, 24), and the medical system being designed to assign the patient data (22, 24) and the physiological data (25, 26) to one another, wherein the at least one medical workstation (5, 7) has a respiratory device (43, 60) with a connection (49, 72) for a respiratory tube (53), and the medical workstation (5, 7) has a radiofrequency detection device (45, 68) which is designed to detect a radiofrequency marker (55) with marker information and to generate a marker signal representing the marker information, and the medical system (1) is designed to assign the physiological data (25, 26) and the patient data (22, 24) to one another, depending on the marker signal

characterized in that the radiofrequency detection device (43, 60) is arranged to detect in the area of the connection for a respiratory tube a radiofrequency marker containing marker information and connected to the respiratory tube and to generate a marker signal representing the marker information, wherein the radiofrequency marker has a random access memory for the marker information and wherein the marker information represents the patient data, and in that the medical workstation is designed to generate a data record representing physiological data and to transfer this data record to and to save this data record in the radiofrequency marker by means of the radiofrequency detection device and to read out the data record representing physiological data by means of the radiofrequency detection device, whereby the medical workstation is able to carry out or continue a further operation depending on the read out of physiological data.

2. The medical system as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that at least one medical workstation (5, 7) is designed to transfer a data record representing adjustment or equipment parameters and save this data record in the radiofrequency marker of the respiratory tube.

3. The medical system as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that at least one medical workstation (5, 7) is designed to read out the data record (25, 26) which is saved in the radiofrequency marker (55) and represents the physiological data or adjustment or equipment parameters by means of the radiofrequency detection device (45, 68).

4. The medical system as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that at least one medical workstation (5) is connected wirelessly to the monitoring station (3).

5. The medical system as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that at least one medical workstation (7) is connected to the monitoring station (3) by wires.

6. A method of operating a medical system which includes at least one medical workstation, the method comprising:

acquiring marker information of a respiratory tube;

acquiring physiological data of a patient;

assigning the physiological data to retained patient data depending on the marker information; and

rendering the physiological data and patient data together, in particular visually or audibly, wherein the acquisition of the marker information includes detecting, in the area of a connection for a respiratory tube, a radiofrequency marker connected to a respiratory tube that contains marker information, and generating a marker signal representing the marker information, wherein the radiofrequency marker has a random access memory for the marker information, wherein the marker information represents the patient data, wherein the acquisition for the physiological data includes generating a data record representing physiological data and transferring this data record to and saving this data record in the radiofrequency marker and reading out the data record representing the physiological data, whereby the method is capable of carrying out or continuing a further operation of the at least one medical workstation depending on the read out physiological data.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, characterized in that the marker information includes adjustment or equipment parameters generated individually for a patient.

8. The method claimed in claim 7, characterized in that operation can be continued at a different medical workstation using the adjustment or equipment parameters saved in the radiofrequency marker of the respiratory tube.