RESCUE TIME TRACKER

• US 20150356850A1
• Filed: 08/20/2015
• Published: 12/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Inventors: Freeman, Gary A., Totman, Mark, Cloutier, Jon P., Herken, Ulrich, Thomas, Colin, Resnick, Jeffrey
• Granted Patent: US 9,430,926 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G04F 10/00 Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by electric means
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0453 worn on the body to detect health condition by physiological monitoring, e.g. electrocardiogram, temperature, breathing detecting, measuring or recording for diagnostic purposes A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/00 Arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received correcting synchronisation H04L7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor

Abstract

This document relates to systems and techniques for providing response to emergency situations, such as traffic accidents, cardiac arrest, or other medical emergencies.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A rescue time tracking device, the device comprising:

a processor configured to maintain time information relative to a time of initialization of the rescue time tracking device;

an input device coupled to the processor and configured to receive one or more inputs from a rescuer, wherein the one or more inputs are indicative of a treatment event associated with a victim;

a storage device coupled to the processor and configured to store event information indicative of a time of the treatment event upon receipt of the input by the input device; and

a display configured to present one or both of the time information and the event information.

3. The rescue time tracking device of claim 2, wherein the rescue time tracking device is initialized by receiving an input from the rescuer to start a timer.

4. The rescue time tracking device of claim 3, wherein the input to start the timer comprises one or more of removing a backing, pressing a button, or connecting a battery with a counter circuit.

5. The rescue time tracking device of claim 2, wherein the treatment event includes one or more of initiation of CPR to the victim, initiation of defibrillation to the victim, initiation of transport of the victim, drug administration to the victim, arrival of the victim at a medical facility, and placement of an advanced airway device.

6. The rescue time tracking device of claim 2, wherein the one or more inputs are indicative of when the treatment event occurs.

7. The rescue time tracking device of claim 2, further comprising one or more additional input devices coupled to the processor, each additional input device configured to receive an input, wherein each input device is associated with another treatment event associated with the victim.

8. The rescue time tracking device of claim 7, wherein the display includes multiple portions that are each associated with one of the input devices.

9. The rescue time tracking device of claim 8, wherein each portion of the display is configured to present event information indicative of a time of the respective treatment event.

10. The rescue time tracking device of claim 2, further comprising a communication interface configured to enable the rescue time tracking device to communicate with a computing device.

11. The rescue time tracking device of claim 10, wherein the computing device is selected from the group consisting of a server, a mobile computing device, a phone, a tablet, a personal digital assistant, a laptop, a computer, and a defibrillator.

12. The rescue time tracking device of claim 10, wherein the communication interface is configured to transmit at least a portion of one or both of the time information and the event information to the computing device.

13. The rescue time tracking device of claim 12, wherein the communication interface is configured to transmit the information to a computing device at a medical facility.

14. The rescue time tracking device of claim 2, wherein the processor is configured to initialize a preset amount of time upon initialization of the rescue time tracking device.

15. The rescue time tracking device of claim 14, wherein the time information includes a count that decrements from the preset time subsequent to initialization of the rescue time tracking device.

16. The rescue time tracking device of claim 14, wherein the time information includes a count that increments toward the preset time subsequent to initialization of the rescue time tracking device.

17. The rescue time tracking device of claim 2, wherein the time of the treatment event corresponds to the time information when the one or more inputs are received by the input device.

18. The rescue time tracking device of claim 2, wherein the input device comprises a button.

19. The rescue time tracking device of claim 18, wherein the button is configured to receive both the one or more inputs indicative of a treatment event and an input to start a timer.

20. The rescue time tracking device of claim 2, wherein the input device is configured to receive spoken information as the input.

21. The rescue time tracking device of claim 2, further comprising an electrode, and wherein the processor, input device, storage device, and display are incorporated into the electrode.

22. The rescue time tracking device of claim 2 being included in a wearable device.

23. The rescue time tracking device of claim 22, wherein the wearable device includes a band configured to be worn around a wrist or hand of the victim.

24. The rescue time tracking device of claim 2 being included in a medical device.

25. The medical device of claim 24, wherein the medical device includes a defibrillation device that includes one or more electrodes.

26. The medical device of claim 24, wherein the medical device includes an electrode and the rescue time tracking device is incorporated into the electrode.