Rescue time tracker

• US 8,922,364 B2
• Filed: 07/23/2012
• Issued: 12/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Inventors: Freeman, Gary A., Totman, Mark, Cloutier, Jon P., Herken, Ulrich, Thomas, Colin, Resnick, Jeffrey
• Primary Examiner(s): Lu, Shirley
• Application Number:
  US13/555,422
• Publication Number:
  US 20130049956A1
• Time in Patent Office: 890 Days
• Field of Search: 340/539.12, 340/574, 600/301, 600/504
• US Class Current: 340/539.12
• CPC Class Codes: G04F 10/00 Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by electric means
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0453 worn on the body to detect health condition by physiological monitoring, e.g. electrocardiogram, temperature, breathing detecting, measuring or recording for diagnostic purposes A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/00 Arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received correcting synchronisation H04L7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor

Abstract

This document relates to systems and techniques for providing response to emergency situations, such as traffic accidents, cardiac arrest, or other medical emergencies.

Claims

1. A rescue time tracking device for communicating information to a rescuer, the device comprising:

an adhesive layer on a first side of the rescue time tracking device for affixing the rescue time tracking device to a victim;

timing circuitry configured to maintain time information relative to a time of initialization of the device;

a backing removably affixed to the adhesive layer on the first side of the rescue time tracking device prior to initialization, wherein removal of the rescue time tracking device from the backing to expose the adhesive layer initializes the timing circuitry; and

a display portion on the second side of the rescue time tracking device configured to display the time information.

2. The rescue time tracking device of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured to maintain the time information comprises circuitry configured to initialize the device to a preset time upon initialization of the device and decrement a time count from the preset time subsequent to initialization of the device.

3. The rescue time tracking device of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured to maintain the time information comprises circuitry configured to increment a time count from subsequent to initialization of the device.

4. The rescue time tracking device of claim 1, further comprising circuitry to determine when a predetermined amount of time has elapsed subsequent to initialization of the device and apply a visual indicia to the time information on the display portion upon the determination that the predetermined amount of time has elapsed.

5. The rescue time tracking device of claim 1, wherein the display portion is further configured to display time information for one or more events related to the victim.

6. The rescue time tracking device of claim 1, further comprising:

a plurality of input devices, each input device being associated with an event;

circuitry configured to record time information from the timing circuitry upon selection of a particular one of the plurality of input devices; and

wherein the display portion is configured to display recorded time information for the event.

7. The rescue time tracking device of claim 1, further comprising:

a wireless transmitter configured to transfer the time information to a computing device.

8. The rescue time tracking device of claim 4, wherein the circuitry to apply a visual indicia to the time information on the display portion is configured to cause the display portion to blink upon the determination that the predetermined amount of time has elapsed.

9. The rescue time tracking device of claim 4, wherein the circuitry to apply a visual indicia to the time information on the display portion is configured to change a color of the display portion upon the determination that the predetermined amount of time has elapsed.

10. The rescue time tracking device of claim 4, wherein the circuitry to apply a visual indicia to the time information on the display portion is further configured to:

determine when a first predetermined amount of time has elapsed subsequent to initialization of the device;

change the color of the display portion from green to yellow upon the determination that the first predetermined amount of time has elapsed;

determine when a second predetermined amount of time has elapsed subsequent to initialization of the device; and

change the color of the display portion from yellow to red upon the determination that the second predetermined amount of time has elapsed.

11. The rescue time tracking device of claim 6, wherein the event is selected from the group consisting of initiation of CPR to the victim, initiation of defibrillation to the victim, loading of the victim into an ambulance, and drug administration to the victim.

12. The rescue time tracking device of claim 6, wherein each event has a corresponding subportion of the display portion that is configured to display the recorded time information for the corresponding event.

13. The rescue time tracking device of claim 1, further comprising:

an alarm in communication with the timing circuitry, the alarm configured to generate an alert when a predetermined amount of time has elapsed subsequent to initialization of the device.

14. The rescue time tracking device of claim 1, further comprising:

a locator configured to communicate with a computing device.

15. The rescue time tracking device of claim 1, wherein the locator is a GPS device that is configured to provide location information to the computing device.

16. The rescue time tracking device of claim 1, wherein the locator is an RFID device that is configured to provide location information to the computing device.

17. The rescue time tracking device of claim 1, wherein the rescue time tracking device is incorporated into a defibrillation electrode pad of a defibrillation device.