Automated external defibrillator configuration

• US 9,119,971 B2
• Filed: 07/26/2012
• Issued: 09/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Inventors: Elghazzawi, Ziad F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Layno, Carl H
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wu, Eugene
• Application Number:
  US13/558,697
• Publication Number:
  US 20140031883A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,132 Days
• Field of Search: 607 4- 8
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3904 External heart defibrillators [EHD]
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3925 Monitoring; Protecting
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3993 User interfaces for automatic external defibrillators

Abstract

Systems and techniques for configuring Automated External Defibrillators are described herein. In certain embodiments, a defibrillator may include a memory configured to store a protocol comprising multiple configurations. The defibrillator may also include a computing device configured to send, to a remote database that includes records associated with automated external defibrillator protocols, a request for available protocols for configuring the automated external defibrillator, receive information about one or more available protocols, send, to the remote database, a request to download a particular one of the available protocols, receive from the remote database, configuration information to automatically configure the automated external defibrillator based on the selected protocol, store the received protocol in the memory, and/or configure the automated external defibrillator to operate according to the protocol stored in the memory.

Claims

1. A method for configuring an automated external defibrillator, the method comprising:

in response to a defibrillator-initiated request, configuring the automated external defibrillator based on a protocol received from a remote database, configuring the automated external defibrillator comprising;

initiating, by the automated external defibrillator, a request for available protocols, by sending the request, from the automated external defibrillator, to a remote database that includes records associated with automated external defibrillator protocols used to configure automated external defibrillators, the request for the available protocols being for configuring the automated external defibrillator;

receiving information about one or more available protocols;

displaying, by the automated external defibrillator, at least a portion of the received protocol information;

initiating, by the automated external defibrillator, a request to download an available protocol, by sending, from the automated external defibrillator, to the remote database, the request to download the available protocol; and

receiving, from the remote database, configuration information to automatically configure the automated external defibrillator based on a selected available protocol; and

receiving, from the remote database and in response to one or more modifications to the selected protocol in the remote database, new configuration information for the selected protocol.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the request for available protocols comprises a request for protocols having privacy settings indicating that the protocol is available for download by the automated external defibrillator.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the privacy settings are based at least in part on ownership of the automated external defibrillator.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

subsequent to receiving the information about the one or more protocols, sending a request to filter the one or more available protocols; and

receiving, from the remote database, a filtered set of available protocols.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the configurations conform to a published treatment guideline.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the configurations include a language setting, a cardiopulmonary resuscitation rate setting, a cardiopulmonary resuscitation depth setting, a shock voltage, and a shock wave form.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically configuring the automated external defibrillator based on the received configurations.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein:

receiving the configuration information to automatically configure the automated external defibrillator based on the selected available protocol comprises pulling the configuration information from the remote database; and

receiving, from the remote database, the new configuration information in response to one or more modifications to the selected available protocol comprises automatically receiving the new configuration information in response to a push action from the remote database.

9. An automated external defibrillator comprising:

a memory configured to store a protocol comprising multiple configurations;

a computing device configured to;

in response to a defibrillator-initiated request, configure the automated external defibrillator based on a protocol received from a remote database in response to a user-initiated request for the protocol, the configurations to cause the computing device to configure the automated external defibrillator comprising configurations to;

initiate, by the defibrillator, a request for available protocols, by sending the request, from the defibrillator, to a remote database that includes records associated with automated external defibrillator protocols, the request for the available protocols being for configuring the automated external defibrillator;

receive information about one or more available protocols;

display, by the automated external defibrillator, at least a portion of the received protocol information;

initiate, by the defibrillator, a request to download an available protocol, by sending, from the defibrillator, to the remote database, the request to download the available protocol;

receive from the remote database, configuration information to automatically configure the automated external defibrillator based on a selected available protocol;

store the received protocol in the memory; and

configure the automated external defibrillator to operate according to the protocol stored in the memory; and

receive, from the remote database and in response to one or more modifications to the selected protocol in the remote database, new configuration information for the selected protocol.

10. The automated external defibrillator of claim 9, wherein the request for available protocols comprises a request for protocols having privacy settings indicating that the protocol is available for download by the automated external defibrillator.

11. The automated external defibrillator of claim 10, wherein the privacy settings are based at least in part on ownership of the automated external defibrillator.

12. The automated external defibrillator of claim 9, wherein the computing device is further configured to:

subsequent to receiving the information about the one or more protocols, send a request to filter the one or more available protocols; and

receive, from the remote database, a filtered set of available protocols.

13. The automated external defibrillator of claim 9, wherein the computing device is further configured to automatically configure the automated external defibrillator based on the received configurations.