Patient monitoring and alarm processing system and user interface

• US 20050256381A1
• Filed: 06/24/2005
• Published: 11/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dragerwerk AG & Company KGaA (FPS Vermögensverwaltung GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Clifford Mark Kelly, Johnnie W. Huang, Nugroho Iwan Santoso
• Inventors: Huang, Johnnie W., Santoso, Nugroho Iwan, Kelly, Clifford Mark
• Granted Patent: US 7,981,032 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/301
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0271 using a remote monitoring unit
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0215 by means inserted into the body catheters A61M25/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1455 using optical sensors, e.g. spectral photometrical oximeters
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/318 Heart-related electrical modalities, e.g. electrocardiography [ECG]
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/92 Computer assisted medical diagnostics
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 706/924 Medical

Abstract

Some embodiments of the invention provide a system to monitor a patient. In some aspects, a signal representing a value of a physiological parameter is received from a monitoring device. The received value is a value that caused the monitoring device to trigger an alarm associated with the psychological parameter. A notification is determined based on the received signal and on a second signal that represents a value of a second physiological parameter. The notification is then presented to an operator.

Claims

1-17. -17. (canceled)

18. A medical alarm system for processing information from a plurality of patient monitoring sources to generate an alert message, comprising:

a communication interface for receiving patient physiological parameter values from a plurality of patient monitoring devices for a particular patient;

a prediction unit for providing data representing an extrapolated patient condition based on the parameter values;

a decision processor for applying a decision rule to said extrapolated patient condition to identify an alert condition; and

an alert generator for generating an alert indication in response to said identified alert condition.

19. A system according to claim 18, wherein

said prediction unit uses patient record information for a particular patient in extrapolating patient condition.

20. A medical alarm system for processing information from a plurality of patient monitoring sources to generate an alert message, comprising:

a communication interface for receiving patient physiological parameters from a plurality of patient monitoring devices for a particular patient;

a prediction unit for providing data representing an extrapolated patient condition based on acquired patient medical parameters; and

a generator for providing at least one of, (a) diagnostic and (b) treatment suggestions based on said extrapolated patient condition.

21. A system according to claim 20, wherein:

said generator provides user-selectable suggestion information of different degrees of detail concerning said extrapolated condition.

22. A system according to claim 21, wherein

said generator associates different reliability weighting to corresponding suggestion information of different degrees of detail.

23-28. -28. (canceled)