Rescue time tracker

• US 9,704,371 B2
• Filed: 08/01/2016
• Issued: 07/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Inventors: Freeman, Gary A, Coutier, Jon P, Thomas, Colin, Herken, Ulrich, Resnick, Jeffrey, Totman, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): Lu, Shirley
• Application Number:
  US15/225,019
• Publication Number:
  US 20170053512A1
• Time in Patent Office: 344 Days
• 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 tracker device comprising:

a time counter configured to track at least one interval of elapsed time wherein the at least one interval of elapsed time is indicative of a remaining time in a time period between a first rescue-related event and a second rescue-related event;

a display configured to display one or more of the at least one interval of elapsed time and a status indicator for the rescue-related event and further configured to provide a reminder for the rescuer to perform the second rescue-related event when the time period has concluded; and

a communication interface comprising one or more of a wireless transmitter and an input/output port, wherein the communication interface is configured to transmit the at least one interval of elapsed time and information corresponding to the rescue-related event to a computing device, wherein the rescue time tracker device is coupled to a defibrillation device.

2. The rescue time tracker device of claim 1 wherein the at least one interval of elapsed time is an elapsed time from an initialization of the rescue time tracker device.

3. The rescue time tracker device of claim 1 wherein the at least one interval of elapsed time is an elapsed time from an occurrence of the rescue-related event.

4. The rescue time tracker device of claim 1 wherein the at least one interval of elapsed time is a time interval corresponding to a medical condition of a victim.

5. The rescue time tracker device of claim 4 wherein the status indicator comprises indicia indicative of the time interval corresponding to the medical condition of the victim.

6. The rescue time tracker device of claim 1 wherein the rescue time tracker device is disposed in a defibrillation electrode pad of the defibrillation device.

7. The rescue time tracker device of claim 1 wherein the communication interface is configured to receive input, from a remote computing device, for determining an operation of at least one component of the rescue time tracker device.

8. The rescue time tracker device of claim 1, wherein the computing device comprises at least one of a mobile computing device, a medical device and a server.

9. The rescue time tracker device of claim 1 wherein the information corresponding to the rescue-related event comprises at least one of identification of the rescue-related event, time of occurrence of the rescue-related event, and an alarm associated with the rescue-related event.

10. The rescue time tracker device of claim 9 further configured to store the information corresponding to the rescue-related event.

11. The rescue time tracker device of claim 1 wherein the rescue-related event comprises one or more of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), defibrillation, drug administration, return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), emergency department (ED) arrival, cooling, airway placement, a diagnostic scan, dispatching emergency response personnel, powering on a defibrillator, loading a victim into an ambulance, delivering drugs, hanging an intravenous bag, and refilling a gas line.

12. The rescue time tracker device of claim 1 further comprising a locator device configured to obtain location information for the rescue time tracker device, wherein the communication mechanism is further configured to transmit the location information, and further wherein the locator device is a global positioning system (GPS) device or a radio frequency identification (RFID) device.

13. A computing device for communicating with one or more rescue time tracker devices, the computing device comprising:

a transceiver;

one or more processors;

a memory;

a communication interface coupled to the transceiver, wherein the communication interface is configured to receive information from the one or more rescue time tracker devices, the information comprising;

at least one interval of elapsed time indicative of a remaining time in a time period between a first rescue-related event and a second rescue-related event, and

information corresponding to the rescue-related event; and

a display configured to display the at least one interval of elapsed time and the information corresponding to the rescue-related event and further configured to provide a reminder for the rescuer to perform the second rescue-related event when the time period has concluded,

wherein the one or more rescue time tracker devices are coupled, respectively, to one or more defibrillation devices.

14. The computing device of claim 13 wherein the information corresponding to the rescue-related event comprises identification of the rescue-related event, time of occurrence of the rescue-related event, and an alarm associated with the rescue-related event.

15. The computing device of claim 13 wherein the communication interface is further configured to receive location information for the one or more rescue time tracker devices.

16. The computing device of claim 13 wherein the communication interface is further configured to receive patient information from an emergency medical services (EMS) device and wherein the processor is configured to incorporate the received patient information from the EMS device with the information received from the one or more rescue time tracker devices.

17. The computing device of claim 13 wherein the communication interface is configured to receive information from at least one medical device.

18. The computing device of claim 17 wherein the communication interface is further configured to send operational input to the at least one rescue time tracker device, wherein the operational input determines an operation of at least one component of the at least one rescue time tracker device.