NON-INVASIVE BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEMS

• US 20120089034A1
• Filed: 06/14/2010
• Published: 04/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Woehrle, Dieter
• Granted Patent: US 9,220,421 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/493
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0443 Modular apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0456 Apparatus provided with a docking unit
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/08 Sensors provided with means for identification, e.g. barcodes or memory chips
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02141 Details of apparatus construction, e.g. pump units or housings therefor, cuff pressurising systems, arrangements of fluid conduits or circuits A61B5/02233, A61B5/0235 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/022 by applying pressure to close blood vessels, e.g. against the skin; Ophthalmodynamometers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7495 using a reader or scanner device, e.g. barcode scanner
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/90 Identification means for patients or instruments, e.g. tags

Abstract

The present invention relates to the field of non- invasive blood pressure (NIBP) monitoring systems and particularly to a system that allows the identification of other components of the system via coding elements that are readable without the need for placement of this system components to the body of a patient.

Claims

1. A non-invasive blood pressure measuring system comprising a monitor and one or more further system components, wherein the monitor has a reading unit for the wireless identification of at least one of the one or more further system components, having a coding element that is readable without the need for placement of the system components to the body of a patient.

2. The non-invasive blood pressure system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the further system components is selected from the group consisting of

cuff

a rack

an analysis unit

a measuring device

a reading unit

a electronic pressure transducer (pressure sensor)

a connecting hose

an extension hose

a microphone

a battery pack

a display and

a deflating/inflating mechanism (air pump)

3. The non-invasive blood pressure system according to claim 1, wherein the coding element encodes information that is readable by electromagnetic radiation.

4. The non-invasive blood pressure system according to claim 3, wherein the coding element encodes information that is readable by high frequency transmission or infrared transmission.

5. The non-invasive blood pressure system according to claim 3, wherein the coding element is a radio-frequency identity (RFID) tag or a bar code.

6. The non-invasive blood pressure system according to claim 1, wherein the coding element is writable.

7. The non-invasive blood pressure system according to claim 1, wherein the coding element is a memory, a resistor, a capacitor, an inductor or any other electronic component that is readable by a corresponding electronic circuit in the monitor.

8. The non-invasive blood pressure system according to claim 2, wherein the rack is attached to the cuff.

9. The non-invasive blood pressure system according to claim 8, wherein the rack is attached to the cuff, whereby the rack is attached permanently or reversibly to the cuff.

10. The non-invasive blood pressure system according to claim 8, wherein the rack comprises the coding element.

11. A method for the identification of one or more system components of a non-invasive blood pressure system according to claim 1, without the need for placement of the system components to the body of a patient, comprising the following steps:

a) providing a monitor with a reading unit and one or more further system components with a coding element, and

b) tagging of the system components by the reading unit of the monitor via read-out of information encoded by the coding element of the system components.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the monitor provided in step a) is held by a rack comprising a coding element and the rack is attached to a cuff.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein the tagging of the system components by the reading unit in step b) occurs by electromagnetic radiation, high frequency transmission or infrared transmission.

14. The method according to claim 11, comprising as a further step:

c) automatic correlation of the outcome of the blood pressure measurement with the patient data by linking of the information encoded by the coding element with the measurement data and the patient record.