Portable medical triage kit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11547616-B2
Application number	US-201715499880-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 27, 2017
Priority date	Apr 27, 2016
Publication date	Jan 10, 2023
Grant date	Jan 10, 2023

Abstract

A portable medical triage kit and interactive application that leads a user through a medically acceptable triage protocol for treating medical emergencies. The interactive application leads the user to treat major life threats of all nearby victims before treating minor threats of anyone.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A portable medical treatment system including:
a user-carryable medical case adapted to be carried by a user from a storage location to a location of a victim requiring medical assistance, the user-carryable medical case having a plurality of tool-receiving receptacles configured to receive multiple medical tools arranged according to a preselected arrangement;
a plurality of medical tools arranged within the plurality of tool-receiving receptacles according to the preselected arrangement; and
a computer that is contained within an interior of the user-carryable medical case, the computer being configured to provide an interactive query flow that guides the user in providing care to the victim, the computer comprising: a touchscreen; one or more processors; and
computer-readable media including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, are configured to cause the computer to perform operations that include:
(i) presenting, on the touchscreen, a first prompt for user input to specify whether the victim is suffering from a first type of condition;
(ii) receiving, through user interaction with the touchscreen, a first user response that specifies whether the victim is suffering from the first type of condition;
(iii) selecting, responsive to the first user response specifying that the victim is suffering from the first type of condition, a first computer-selected medical tool from among the medical tools located in the user-carryable medical case with which to treat the first type of condition;
(iv) presenting, on the touchscreen responsive to the computer selecting the first computer-selected medical tool from among the medical tools located in the user-carryable medical case, information that instructs the user to retrieve the first computer-selected medical tool from the user-carryable medical case and that assists the user in locating the first computer-selected medical tool from among medical tools located within the user-carryable medical case;
(v) presenting, on the touchscreen responsive to the computer selecting the first computer-selected medical tool, information that instructs the user how to apply the first computer-selected medical tool to the victim to treat the first type of condition;
(vi) presenting, on the touchscreen responsive to the first user indicating that the first computer-selected medical tool cannot be applied according to the information that instructs the user how to apply the first computer-selected medical tool, a second computer-selected medical tool from among the medical tools located in the user-carryable medical case with which to treat the first type of condition:
(vii) presenting, on the touchscreen responsive to the computer selecting the second computer-selected medical tool from among the medical tools located in the user-carryable medical case, information that instructs the user to retrieve the second computer-selected medical tool from the user-carryable medical case and that assists the user in locating the second computer-selected medical tool from among medical tools located within the user-carryable medical case; and
(viii) presenting, on the touchscreen responsive to the computer selecting the second computer-selected medical tool information that instructs the user how to apply the second computer-selected medical tool to the victim to treat the first, type of condition.

2. The portable medical treatment system of claim 1 , wherein the interactive query flow includes an audio component and a video component.

3. The portable medical treatment system of claim 1 , wherein the interactive query flow leads the user to provide care to medical emergency victims of severe life threats before other medical emergencies.

4. The portable medical treatment system of claim 3 , wherein the severe life threats that are treated before other medical emergencies include severe bleeding, unconsciousness, and trouble breathing.

5. The portable medical treatment system of claim 1 , wherein the interactive query flow includes a built-in timer for automatically alerting the user to perform tasks.

6. The portable medical treatment system of claim 1 , wherein the interactive query flow presents a treatment screen based on a user response supplied in a previous treatment screen.

7. The portable medical treatment system of claim 1 , wherein the interactive query flow manages treatment of multiple victims at the same time.

8. The portable medical treatment system of claim 1 , wherein the computer stores data related to the interactive query flow, including input by the user.

9. The portable medical treatment system of claim 1 , wherein the computer is configured to display a summary of treatment.

10. The portable medical treatment system of claim 9 , wherein the summary of treatment includes at least one of an action performed by the user, a date, or a time of action performed by the user.

11. The portable medical treatment system of claim 1 , wherein the computer is configured to present a prompt for user input to specify whether the victim is suffering from a second type of condition, in distinction to presenting the information that instructs the user to retrieve the first computer-selected medical tool, as a consequence of the first user response specifying that the victim is not suffering from the first type of condition.

12. The portable medical treatment system of claim 11 , wherein the computer is configured to present prompts during the interactive query flow with reference to injuries in a descending order of severity, such that the first condition that is a subject of the first prompt represents a more severe type of condition than the second condition that is a subject of another prompt that the computer is configured to present should the first user response specify that the victim is not suffering from the first type of condition.

13. The portable medical treatment system of claim 1 , wherein the computer is configured so that the interactive query flow provides instructions for treating a victim condition after differing numbers of prompts, based on content of user responses to the prompts.

14. The portable medical treatment system of claim 1 , wherein presenting the first prompt for user input to specify whether the victim is suffering from the first type of condition includes presenting text on the touchscreen that identifies the first type of condition and presenting an image on the touchscreen that visually depicts the first type of condition on a human body.

15. The portable medical treatment system of claim 1 , wherein: the medical tools that are located in the user-carryable medical case are coded with different colors; and
presenting the information that instructs the user to retrieve the first computer-selected medical tool from among the medical tools in the user-carryable medical case includes presenting a coding for the first computer-selected medical tool according to the coding of the different colors for the medical tools in the user-carryable medical case, to assist the user in finding the first computer-selected medical tool in the user-carryable medical case.

16. The portable medical treatment system of claim 1 , wherein the presentation by the touchscreen of the information that instructs the user how to apply the first computer-selected medical tool to the victim to treat the first type of condition includes (i) text instructions that specify how to apply the first computer-selected medical tool to the victim, and (ii) a visual picture or video that depicts how to apply the first computer-selected m

Assignees

• Zoll Medical Corp

Inventors

• Gerstner Jeffrey
• Gotham Jason
• Bart Joseph A
• Strattner Christopher
• Goldstein Seth
• Gioeli Guy
• Pelak Matthew
• Ray Joshua

Classifications

• A61F17/00 Primary

  First-aid kits · CPC title

• A45C2011/007

  Receptacles for personal medical or care products, e.g. drugs, condoms or patches; Small first-aid kits · CPC title

• G16H40/20

  for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms · CPC title

• G16H70/20

  relating to practices or guidelines · CPC title

• A61M16/00

  Devices for influencing the respiratory system of patients by gas treatment, e.g. ventilators (iron lungs A61H31/02); Tracheal tubes · CPC title