×

Patient monitoring system and method configured to suppress an alarm

  • US 9,965,945 B2
  • Filed: 09/30/2016
  • Issued: 05/08/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
First Claim
Patent Images

1. A patient monitoring system comprising:

  • a plurality of acquisition devices, wherein the acquisition devices have sensors configured to detect physiological signals from a patient and device circuitry configured to determine whether the corresponding physiological signals satisfy a designated condition;

    a master unit having a processor configured to execute programmed instructions stored in memory, the master unit configured to communicatively couple to the plurality of acquisition devices, the master unit, when executing the programmed instructions, configured to;

    receive signal data of the patient from the acquisition devices, wherein the signal data is based on the physiological signals detected by one or more of the sensors of the corresponding acquisition devices;

    receive a warning signal from a triggered acquisition device of the plurality of acquisition devices, the warning signal being communicated by the triggered acquisition device upon determining, at the triggered acquisition device, that the corresponding physiological signals of the triggered acquisition device satisfy the designated condition;

    wherein, in response to receiving the warning signal from the triggered acquisition device, the master unit is configured to analyze the signal data from another acquisition device of the plurality of acquisition devices to determine whether the warning signal is clinically relevant or clinically irrelevant or unreliable, the master unit permitting a patient alarm associated with the triggered acquisition device to issue after determining the warning signal is clinically relevant, the master unit suppressing the patient alarm associated with the triggered acquisition device after determining that the warning signal is clinically irrelevant or unreliable;

    wherein the triggered acquisition device is configured to confirm that a communication line exists between the triggered acquisition device and the master unit, the device circuitry of the triggered acquisition device causing the patient alarm to issue or another patient alarm to issue after determining that the communication line is insufficient for communicating the warning signal, the other patient alarm being indicative of a health-related event that is monitored by the triggered acquisition device.

View all claims
  • 1 Assignment
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×