Patient monitor with user-defined monitored parameters

• US 10,264,983 B2
• Filed: 02/19/2015
• Issued: 04/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Inventors: Nielsen, Larry, Saeed, Mohammed
• Primary Examiner(s): Lin, Jerry
• Application Number:
  US14/626,064
• Publication Number:
  US 20150164345A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,524 Days
• Field of Search: 600301
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/00 Measuring for diagnostic purposes radiation diagnosis A61B6/00; diagnosis by ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves A61B8/00; Identification of persons
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02055 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular condition and temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/024 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse rate or heart rate A61B5/0205, A61B5/021 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14542 for measuring blood gases A61B5/14551 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/318 Heart-related electrical modalities, e.g. electrocardiography [ECG]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

In a medical monitoring system, one or more biometric monitors collect data of a plurality of monitored biometric parameters. An expression evaluator evaluates a user-defined expression incorporating one or more of the monitored biometric parameters to generate data for a user-defined biometric parameter. A further processing component performs processing and display of data of at least one parameter selected from the monitored biometric parameters and the user-defined biometric parameter. The further processing component operates in the same way regardless of whether the at least one parameter is selected from the monitored biometric parameters or the user-defined biometric parameter.

Claims

1. A medical monitoring system comprising:

one or more biometric monitors configured to collect time-stamped samples of a plurality of monitored biometric parameters;

an expression evaluator comprising a computer configured to generate time-stamped samples of a user-defined biometric parameter defined by a user-defined expression by evaluating the user-defined expression for one or more of the monitored biometric parameters incorporated into the user-defined expression;

a data storage including a first storage structure corresponding to each monitored biometric parameter configured to store the time-stamped samples of the corresponding monitored biometric parameter and a second storage structure corresponding to each user-defined biometric parameter configured to store the time-stamped samples of the corresponding user-defined biometric parameter;

a graphical display including a plurality of display regions; and

a station controller that is user-configurable to select a monitored biometric parameter or user-defined biometric parameter for each display region of the display component, the station controller configured to display in each display region a trend of time-stamped samples of the selected monitored biometric parameter or user-defined biometric parameter stored in the corresponding storage structure of the data storage by plotting the time-stamped samples of the selected monitored biometric parameter or user-defined biometric parameter respective to time as indicated by the time stamps of the time-stamped samples.

2. The medical monitoring system of claim 1, wherein:

the data storage includes said first storage structure corresponding to each monitored biometric parameter configured to store the time-stamped samples of the corresponding monitored biometric parameter in a floating point binary format and said second storage structure corresponding to each user-defined biometric parameter configured to store the time-stamped samples of the corresponding user-defined biometric parameter in the same floating point binary format as the stored time-stamped samples of the monitored biometric parameters.

3. The medical monitoring system of claim 1, wherein:

the data storage includes said first storage structure corresponding to each monitored biometric parameter configured to store the time-stamped samples of the corresponding monitored biometric parameter in a text value format and said second storage structure corresponding to each user-defined biometric parameter configured to store the time-stamped samples of the corresponding user-defined biometric parameter in the same text value format as the stored time-stamped samples of the monitored biometric parameters.

4. The medical monitoring system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the one or more biometric monitors are configured to collect time-stamped samples of a plurality of monitored biometric parameters including at least two monitored biometric parameters selected from the group consisting of:

heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, blood oxygen saturation (SpO₂), and electrocardiographic (ECG) data.

5. The medical monitoring system of claim 1 wherein:

the data storage is configured to store the time-stamped samples in each storage structure of the data storage in the same format including (1) the same time stamp format and (2) the same sample value representation format, regardless of whether the storage structure corresponds to a monitored biometric parameter or to a user-defined biometric parameter.

6. The medical monitoring system of claim 5, the time stamp format is a floating point binary time stamp format and the sample value representation format is a floating point binary sample value representation format.

7. The medical monitoring system of claim 5, the time stamp format is a text value time stamp format and the sample value representation format is a text value sample value representation format.

8. The medical monitoring system as set forth in claim 5, wherein the one or more biometric monitors are configured to collect time-stamped samples of a plurality of monitored biometric parameters including at least two monitored biometric parameters selected from the group consisting of:

heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, blood oxygen saturation (SpO₂), and electrocardiographic (ECG) data.

9. A medical monitoring system comprising:

one or more biometric monitors configured to collect time-stamped samples of a plurality of monitored biometric parameters including at least two monitored biometric parameters selected from the group consisting of;

heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, blood oxygen saturation (SpO₂), and electrocardiographic (ECG) data;

a first data storage;

a second data storage; and

an expression evaluator comprising a computer configured to;

generate time-stamped samples of a user-defined biometric parameter defined by a user-defined expression by evaluating the user-defined expression for the collected time-stamped samples of one or more of the monitored biometric parameters incorporated into the user-defined expression;

store the collected time-stamped samples of the plurality of monitored biometric parameters in the first data storage in a format including a time stamp format for time stamps of the time-stamped samples and a sample value representation format for the samples;

store the time-stamped samples of the user-defined biometric parameter in the second data storage in the same format as the collected time-stamped samples of the monitored biometric parameters, the same format including the same time stamp format and the same sample value representation format; and

a display component configured to process and display a trend of time-stamped samples of at least one parameter selected from the monitored biometric parameters and the user-defined biometric parameter by plotting the time-stamped samples respective to time as indicated by the time stamps of the time-stamped samples.

10. The medical monitoring system of claim 9 wherein the time stamp format is a floating point binary time stamp format and the sample value representation format is a floating point binary sample value representation format.

11. The medical monitoring system of claim 9 wherein the time stamp format is a text value time stamp format and the sample value representation format is a text value sample value representation format.