Rescue time tracker

• US 9,928,718 B2
• Filed: 06/02/2017
• Issued: 03/27/2018
• 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, Totman, Mark, Cloutier, Jon P, Herken, Ulrich, Thomas, Colin, Resnick, Jeffrey
• Primary Examiner(s): Lu, Shirley
• Application Number:
  US15/611,889
• Publication Number:
  US 20170337798A1
• Time in Patent Office: 298 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 computing device for communicating with a rescue time tracker device, the computing device comprising:

a communication interface configured to communicatively couple to a defibrillator coupled to a rescue time tracker device, wherein the communication interface is configured to receive patient data from the defibrillator and time tracking information from the rescue time tracker device, the time tracking information comprising;

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

information corresponding to one or more of the first rescue-related event and the second rescue-related event;

one or more processors configured to incorporate the time tracking information into the patient data;

a memory; and

a display configured to display the patient data incorporated with the time tracking information, the at least one interval of elapsed time, and the information corresponding to the one or more of the first rescue-related event and the second rescue-related event and further configured to provide a reminder for a rescuer to perform the second rescue-related event when the time period has concluded.

2. The computing 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 and the first rescue-related event is the initialization of the rescue time tracker device.

3. The computing device of claim 1 wherein the reminder is an alarm associated with the second rescue-related event.

4. The computing device of claim 1 wherein the at least one interval of elapsed time corresponds to a difference between a first time quantity at a conclusion of the at least one interval of elapsed time and a second time quantity at an initialization of the at least one interval of elapsed time and further wherein the one or more processors are configured to:

convert the first time quantity to a first standard time associated with a treatment facility,

convert the second time quantity to a second standard time associated with the treatment facility based on the first standard time, and

generate a timeline indicating the first standard time, the second standard time, the one or more of the first rescue-related event and the second rescue-related event, and an association between the first standard time, the second standard time, and the one or more of the first rescue-related event and the second rescue-related event.

5. The computing device of claim 4 wherein the first standard time associated with the treatment facility is a time of arrival at the treatment facility of a patient associated with at least one rescue time tracker device.

6. The computing device of claim 4 wherein the second standard time is a time prior to a time of arrival of a patient at the treatment facility.

7. The computing device of claim 4 wherein the display is configured to display the timeline.

8. The computing device of claim 4 wherein the communication interface is configured to receive the patient data from one or more computing devices comprising a patient charting device, a dispatch information device, and a navigation device and the one or more processors are configured to combine the patient data with the timeline.

9. The computing device of claim 8 wherein the communication interface is configured to send one or more of the patient data and the timeline to a remote computing device associated with at least one of an ambulance, a hospital, or a physician.

10. The computing device of claim 8 wherein the communication interface is configured to send, via a web browser interface, the one or more of the patient data and the timeline to a display screen associated with the at least one of an ambulance, a hospital, or a physician.

11. The computing device of claim 8 wherein the communication interface is configured to send, in real time, the one or more of the patient data and the timeline to a display screen associated with the at least one of an ambulance, a hospital, or a physician.

12. The computing device of claim 1 wherein the communication interface is configured to receive patient data from one or more computing devices comprising one or more of a defibrillator monitoring a patient, a patient charting device, a dispatch information device, and a navigation device.

13. The computing device of claim 1 wherein the information corresponding to the one or more of the first rescue-related event and the second rescue-related event comprises rescue-related event identification, rescue-related event time of occurrence, and a rescue-related event alarm.

14. The computing 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.

15. The computing device of claim 1 wherein the first rescue-related event and the second rescue-related event comprise one or more of an initialization of the rescue time tracker, 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, a delivery of drugs, hanging an intravenous bag, and refilling a gas line.

16. The computing device of claim 15 wherein the first rescue-related event comprises the initialization of the rescue time tracker device.

17. The computing device of claim 15 wherein the second rescue-related event comprises the delivery of drugs.

18. The computing device of claim 1 wherein the communication interface is configured to receive location information from the rescue time tracker device.

19. The computing device of claim 18 wherein the location information is global positioning system (GPS) information or a radio frequency identification (RFID) information.