Medical alarm system and medical alarm indicator

• US 9,412,259 B2
• Filed: 03/11/2014
• Issued: 08/09/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
• Inventors: Nagase, Kazuya, Muneshima, Rie
• Primary Examiner(s): Pope, Daryl
• Application Number:
  US14/204,263
• Publication Number:
  US 20140266709A1
• Time in Patent Office: 882 Days
• Field of Search: 340/539.1, 340/539.13, 340/539.11, 340/573.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/002 Monitoring the patient using a local or closed circuit, e.g. in a room or building A61B5/0017 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/746 Alarms related to a physiological condition, e.g. details of setting alarm thresholds or avoiding false alarms alarms per se G08B
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/16 Human faces, e.g. facial parts, sketches or expressions
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/001 Alarm cancelling procedures or alarm forwarding decisions, e.g. based on absence of alarm confirmation
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A medical alarm system includes: a bedside monitor which is configured to transmit alarm information when an abnormality is detected in measured biological information of a patient; a position information measuring device which is configured to transmit medical person position information when position information of a medical person is measured; and an information displaying device which is configured to receive and display the alarm information and the medical person position information. The information displaying device includes an alarm information displaying section and a medical person position information displaying section. When receiving the alarm information, the information displaying device displays the alarm information in the alarm information displaying section and the medical person position information in the medical person position information displaying section.

Claims

1. A medical alarm system comprising:

a bedside monitor which is configured to transmit alarm information when an abnormality is detected in measured biological information of a patient;

a position information measuring device which is configured to transmit medical person position information when position information of a medical person is measured; and

an information displaying device which is configured to receive and display the alarm information and the medical person position information, wherein

the information displaying device includes an alarm information displaying section and a medical person position information displaying section,

when receiving the alarm information, the information displaying device displays the alarm information in the alarm information displaying section and the medical person position information in the medical person position information displaying section, the alarm information displayed in the alarm information displaying section indicating an emergency of a treatment to be applied to a patient in whom an abnormality of biological information occurs, the medical person position information displayed in the medical person position information displaying section indicating whether or not a medical person exists in a patient room of the patient in whom the abnormality of the biological information occurs, and

the alarm information and the medical person position information are concurrently displayed.

2. The medical alarm system according to claim 1, wherein the position information measuring device measures the position information of the medical person based on detection of an IC tag carried by the medical person.

3. The medical alarm system according to claim 1, wherein the position information measuring device measures the position information of the medical person based on face recognition of the medical person.

4. The medical alarm system according to claim 1, wherein the information displaying device is installed on a corridor side of an inlet of a patient room.

5. The medical alarm system according to claim 1, wherein each of the alarm information displaying section and the medical person position information displaying section is a visible displaying unit.

6. The medical alarm system according to claim 1, further comprising a central monitor which is connected to a plurality of the bedside monitor through a network, and which is configured to centrally manage states of patients, wherein

the alarm information and medical person position information of the patients are displayed on the central monitor through the network.

7. A medical alarm indicator including a medical person position information displaying section in which position information of a medical person is displayed, the position information displayed in the medical person position information displaying section indicating whether or not the medical person exists in a patient room of a patient in whom an abnormality of biological information occurs,

the medical alarm indicator including an alarm information displaying section in which alarm information is displayed, the alarm information displayed in the alarm information displaying section indicating an emergency of a treatment to be applied to the patient in whom the abnormality of the biological information occurs, and

the alarm information and the position information being concurrently displayed.