Medical device with tacticle user interface

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016346559-A1
Application number	US-201615232658-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 9, 2016
Priority date	Aug 20, 2012
Publication date	Dec 1, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Medical devices include patient modules and displays, which are all electrically coupled together. The patient modules include a defibrillation therapy module and optionally a monitoring module. The defibrillation therapy modules have circuitry that can discharge electric, defibrillation shock through defibrillation electrodes. Some of these medical devices treat patients with defibrillation shock therapy and can also monitor various patient parameters. The displays have a tactile user interface that can include a touch screen in some examples. The tactile user interface translates any received tactile input into an instruction for the patient module. Some specific examples of the disclosed medical devices are defibrillators.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A medical device, comprising:
a patient module that includes a defibrillation therapy module, the defibrillation therapy module including circuitry that, upon receipt of a control signal, discharges electric, defibrillation shock through one or more defibrillation electrodes; and a display electrically coupled to the patient module, the display having a tactile user interface that includes a touch screen, the tactile user interface, upon receipt of a tactile input, translates the tactile input into an instruction for the patient module.

2 . The medical device of claim 1 , wherein, upon receipt of the tactile input, the tactile user interface transmits the instruction directly to the patient module.

3 . The medical device of claim 2 , wherein the control signal is based, at least in part, on the transmitted instruction.

4 . The medical device of claim 1 , further comprising a processor electrically coupled to the patient module and the display, and the tactile user interface, upon receipt of the tactile input, transmits the instruction to the processor.

5 . The medical device of claim 4 , wherein the processor is configured to analyze the transmitted instruction, determine if one or both of treatment for and monitoring of the patient is appropriate based at least in part on the transmitted instruction, and identify feedback for one or both of treatment and monitoring of a patient based on whether the processor determined that one or both of treatment for and monitoring of the patient is appropriate.

6 . The medical device of claim 5 , wherein the processor is further configured to transmit the feedback for the one or both of treatment and monitoring of a patient to an output.

7 . The medical device of claim 6 , wherein the output includes a visual output displayed on the display.

8 . The medical device of claim 1 , wherein the patient module further includes a monitoring module, the monitoring module includes circuitry that, upon receipt of a control signal, activates one or more sensors to detect one or more patient parameters and packages the detected one or more patient parameters as patient data.

9 . The medical device of claim 8 , wherein the circuitry of the monitoring module, upon packaging the detected one or more patient parameters, transmits the patient data to the defibrillation therapy module.

10 . The medical device of claim 9 , wherein the circuitry of the defibrillation therapy module, upon receipt of the patient data from the defibrillation therapy module, analyzes the patient data to determine if the patient data includes one or more physiological indicators that indicate defibrillation shock therapy should be administered to the patient.

11 . The medical device of claim 10 , wherein the defibrillation therapy module, upon determining that the patient data includes one or more physiological indicators that indicates defibrillation shock therapy should be administered to the patient, generates the control signal that discharges electric, defibrillation shock through the one or more defibrillation electrodes.

12 . The medical device of claim 8 , further comprising a processor electrically coupled to the patient module and the display, and the tactile user interface, upon receipt of the tactile input, transmits the instruction to the processor and the monitoring module, upon packaging the patient data, transmits the patient data to the processor.

13 . The medical device of claim 12 , wherein the processor is configured to analyze the transmitted instruction and the transmitted patient data and to identify feedback to one or both of generate another control signal for the defibrillation therapy module to discharge another electric, defibrillation shock through the one or more defibrillation electrodes and to activate the one or more sensors to detect the one or more patient parameters.

14 . The medical device of claim 8 , wherein the tactile user interface, upon receipt of the tactile input, translates the tactile input into an instruction for one or both of the patient module and the monitoring module.

15 . The medical device of claim 1 , wherein the tactile input is one or both of single-touch user input that includes tapping and soft key display input and multi-touch user input that includes moving user gestures.

16 . The medical device of claim 1 , further comprising a communications module electrically coupled to the patient module and the display, the communications module configured to transmit patient data to another computing device, the patient data including data relating to the control signal received by the patient module, a discharge of electric, defibrillation shock through the one or more defibrillation electrodes, and the tactile input.

17 . The medical device of claim 1 , further comprising one or more ambient environment sensors electrically coupled to the patient module and the display, both the patient module and the display, upon receipt of data about an ambient environment around the patient from the ambient environment sensors, generates ambient environment data signals that include information about the ambient environment and transmits the ambient environment data signals to one or more of the patient module and the display.

18 . A defibrillator for one or both of treating and monitoring a patient, comprising:
a patient module including:
a defibrillation therapy module including circuitry that, upon receipt of a control signal, discharges electric, defibrillation shock through one or more electrodes;
a monitoring module including circuitry that, upon receipt of patient physiological data including an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal sensed by the one or more electrodes, generates monitoring feedback about the sensed patient physiological data, the monitoring feedback including analysis of the ECG signal that identifies one or more characteristics about the ECG signal that indicates a patient physiological condition treatable by electric, defibrillation shock;
a processor electrically coupled to the patient module, the processor configured to receive the monitoring feedback and generate a defibrillation instruction for inclusion in the control signal that, at least in part, causes the defibrillation therapy module to discharge electric defibrillation shock through the one or more electrodes; and a touch screen user interface electrically coupled to the patient module and the processor,
the touch screen user interface displaying, upon receipt of a display signal to display patient data received from one or both of the patient module and the processor, at least a portion of the display signal including one or more of the patient physiological data, the ECG signal, the monitoring feedback, the patient physiological condition, and the defibrillation instruction; and
the touch screen user interface, upon receipt of user input about one or more of the patient physiological data, the ECG signal, the monitoring feedback, the patient physiological condition, the defibrillation instruction, and user input, generating user input data and transmitting the user input data to one or both of the patient module and the processor.

19 . The defibrillator of claim 18 , wherein the user input is one or both of single-touch user input and multi-touch user input.

20 . The defibrillator of claim 18 , further comprising a communications module electrically coupled to the patient module, the processor, and the touch screen user interface, the communi

Assignees

• Physio Control Inc

Inventors

• Daynes John C

Classifications

• A61N1/3993 Primary

  User interfaces for automatic external defibrillators · CPC title

• A61N1/3987

  characterised by the timing or triggering of the shock · CPC title

• A61N1/3925

  Monitoring; Protecting · CPC title

• A61N1/046

  Specially adapted for shock therapy, e.g. defibrillation · CPC title