User-responsive medical trauma treatment device

• US 10,593,191 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2019
• Issued: 03/17/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Erik Ward
• Original Assignee: Erik Ward
• Inventors: Ward, Erik
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Tai T
• Application Number:
  US16/353,078
• Publication Number:
  US 20190206234A1
• Time in Patent Office: 369 Days
• Field of Search: 3405681, 3405721-5727, 34053912, 34053915, 34053932, 340 108
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0277 Communication between units on a local network, e.g. Bluetooth, piconet, zigbee, Wireless Personal Area Networks [WPAN]
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/001 Signalling to an emergency team, e.g. firemen
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/40 relating to mechanical, radiation or invasive therapies, e.g. surgery, laser therapy, dialysis or acupuncture
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

An improved user-responsive medical trauma treatment device system and methods are provided. The present invention makes several improvements to the emergency medical treatment industry by implementing advanced diagnostics and user-triggered feedback to more appropriately address the situation at hand.

Claims

1. A user-responsive medical trauma treatment device configured to be used by a user for a patient in need of emergency medical treatment for at least one injury, said device comprising:

a housing;

an apparatus within said housing, said apparatus containing a plurality of different removable medical components; and

an audible sound system accessible from said apparatus, wherein the audible sound system is configured to;

responsive to activation of the user-responsive medical trauma treatment device by the user, produce sounds to;

(i) prompt the user to determine where said patient'"'"'s injury appears to originate,

(ii) prompt the user to remove a designated one of the medical components from the apparatus based on the patient'"'"' injury, and

(iii) responsive to a determination by the apparatus that the user has removed the designated medical component, prompt the user to utilize the removed designated medical component in a manner appropriate and consistent with treatment for said patient'"'"'s injury.

2. The user-responsive medical trauma treatment device of claim 1, wherein each medical component has an RFID sensor attached to said medical component, wherein for each medical component, the RFID sensor attached to that medical component is configured to send out position data relating to that medical component.

3. The user-responsive medical trauma treatment device of claim 2, wherein the apparatus includes an RFID antenna.

4. The user-responsive medical trauma treatment device of claim 1, wherein the audible sound system is further configured to repeat producing said sounds if necessary for the treatment of another injury of the patient.

5. A user-responsive medical trauma treatment device configured to be used by a user for a patient in need of emergency medical treatment for at least one injury, said device comprising:

an apparatus containing a plurality of different removable medical components; and

an audible sound system accessible from said apparatus, wherein the audible sound system is configured to;

responsive to activation of the user-responsive medical trauma treatment device by the user, produce sounds to;

(i) prompt the user to determine where said patient'"'"'s injury appears to originate,

(ii) prompt the user to remove a designated one of the medical components from the apparatus based on the patient'"'"'s injury, and

(iii) responsive to a determination by the apparatus that the user has removed the designated medical component, prompt the user to utilize the removed designated medical component in a manner appropriate and consistent with treatment for said patient'"'"'s injury.

6. The user-responsive medical trauma treatment device of claim 5, wherein each medical component has an RFID sensor attached to said medical component, wherein for each medical component, the RFID sensor attached to that medical component is configured to send out position data relating to that medical component.

7. The user-responsive medical trauma treatment device of claim 6, wherein the apparatus includes an RFID antenna.

8. The user-responsive medical trauma treatment device of claim 5, wherein the audible sound system is further configured to repeat producing said sounds if necessary for the treatment of another injury of the patient.

9. A method of enabling a user to provide emergency medical treatment for a patient having an injury, said method comprising:

(a) providing a user-responsive medical trauma treatment device, the device including an apparatus containing a plurality of different removable medical components and an audible sound system accessible from said apparatus and configured to produce sounds;

(b) responsive to activation of the user-responsive medical trauma treatment device by the user, causing the audio sound system to produce the sounds to;

(i) prompt the user to determine where said patient'"'"'s injury appears to originate,

(ii) prompt the user to remove a designated one of the medical components from the apparatus based on the patient'"'"' injury;

(iii) responsive to determining that the user has removed the designated medical component, prompt the user to utilize the removed designated medical component in a manner appropriate and consistent with treatment for said patient'"'"'s injury.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the determining that the user has removed the designated medical component is based on an RFID sensor attached to the designated medical component, wherein for the designated medical component, the RFID sensor attached to the designated medical component is configured to send out position data relating to the designated medical component.

11. The method of claim 10, which includes causing a RFID antenna of the apparatus to determine that the user has removed the designated medical component based on the RFID sensor attached to the designated medical component.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the user-responsive medical trauma treatment device includes a housing and wherein the apparatus is removable from the housing.

13. The method of claim 9, which includes repeating (b) if necessary for the treatment of another injury of the patient.