Infant warming system having ecg monitor and method for providing resuscitation assistance

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022015697-A1
Application number	US-202117492066-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 1, 2021
Priority date	Jun 22, 2017
Publication date	Jan 20, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

An infant warming system comprising a platform for supporting an infant, at least two chest electrodes configured to connect to and detect cardiac potentials from a chest of the infant, an ECG monitor configured to receive the cardiac potentials from the at least two chest electrodes and determine a heart rate based on the cardiac potentials, a pulse oximeter device configured to determine an SpO2 for the infant, and a processor configured to compare the heart rate for the infant to a first heart rate threshold and compare the SpO2 for the infant to a first SpO2 threshold. The processor can also adjust a display of the heart rate and the SpO2 on a display device based on the comparisons and generate a first care instruction via a user interface based on the heart rate, the SpO2, or a combination thereof.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An infant warming system comprising:
a platform for supporting an infant; at least two chest electrodes configured to connect to and detect cardiac potentials from a chest of the infant; an ECG monitor configured to receive the cardiac potentials from the at least two chest electrodes and determine a heart rate based on the cardiac potentials; a pulse oximeter device configured to determine an SpO 2 for the infant; a processor configured to:
compare the heart rate for the infant to a first heart rate threshold and compare the SpO 2 for the infant to a first SpO 2 threshold;
adjust a display of the heart rate and the SpO 2 on a display device based on the comparisons; and
generate a first care instruction for a first care stage via a user interface based on the heart rate of the infant, the SpO 2 of the infant, or a combination thereof.

2 . The infant warming system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is to
receive acknowledgment of execution of the first care instruction; determine a second care stage when the heart rate remains below the first heart rate threshold for a predetermined time; and generate a second care instruction via the user interface based on the second care stage.

3 . The infant warming system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is to:
determine one or more activation thresholds based on the SpO 2 for the infant, wherein the one or more activation thresholds comprise at least the first SpO 2 threshold; generate a second care instruction via the user interface based on the SpO 2 for the infant and the one or more activiation thresholds.

4 . The infant warming system of claim 3 , wherein the one or more activation thresholds are preset values set within software executed by the processor or values established upon configuration of the software within the infant warming system.

5 . The infant warming system of claim 3 , wherein the processor is to calculate the one or more activation thresholds based at least in part on a time of life of the infant.

6 . The infant warming system of claim 3 , wherein the one or more activation thresholds represent one or more target saturation levels for the infant.

7 . The system of claim 3 , wherein the user interface includes a speaker and the first and/or the second care instruction comprises an audible instruction of the SpO2 of the infant.

8 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the processor is further configured to automatically suppress audio annunciation of one or more threshold alarms.

9 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the first care instruction, the second care instruction, or a combination thereof includes a visual instruction.

10 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
determine one or more care options based on the SpO2 of the infant; and display the determined one or more care options on the display device.

11 . The system of claim 10 , wherein the infant care station further comprises a microphone to record audible inputs from a user; and
wherein the processor is further configured to:
detect an acknowledgment of execution of the one or more care options, wherein the detecting comprises detecting an audible care option selection recorded by the microphone.

12 . A method of operating an infant warming system, comprising:
detecting a connection of at least two ECG chest electrodes, wherein the at least two ECG chest electrodes detect cardiac potentials from a chest of an infant; determining, using an ECG monitor, a heart rate for the infant based on the cardiac potentials sensed via the ECG chest electrodes; comparing the heart rate for the infant to a first heart rate threshold and comparing an SpO 2 for the infant to a first SpO 2 threshold; adjusting a display of the heart rate and the SpO 2 on a display device based on the comparisons; and generating a first care instruction for a first care stage via a user interface based on the heart rate for the infant, the SpO 2 for the infant, or a combination thereof.

13 . The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
receiving acknowledgment of execution of the first care instruction; determining a second care stage when the heart rate remains below the first heart rate threshold for a predetermined time; and generating a second care instruction via the user interface based on the second care stage.

14 . The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
determining one or more activation thresholds based on the SpO 2 for the infant; generating a second care instruction via the user interface based on the SpO 2 for the infant and the one or more activiation thresholds.

15 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the one or more activation thresholds are preset values set within software executed by a processor or values established upon configuration of the software within an infant warming system.

16 . The method of claim 14 , further comprising calculating the one or more activation thresholds based at least in part on a time of life of the infant.

17 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the one or more activation thresholds represent one or more target saturation levels for the infant.

18 . The method of claim 14 , wherein providing the first care instruction, the second care instruction, or a combination thereof comprises providing an audible instruction based on the SpO 2 of the infant patient.

19 . A method of operating an infant warming system, comprising:
comparing an SpO 2 for an infant to an SpO 2 threshold to generate an SpO 2 comparison; adjusting a display of the SpO 2 on a display device based on the SpO 2 comparison; and generating a first care instruction via a user interface based on the SpO 2 for the infant.

20 . The method of claim 19 , further comprising:
comparing a heart rate for the infant to a first heart rate threshold to generate a heart rate comparison; adjusting a display of the heart rate on the display device based on the heart rate comparison; and generating a second care instruction for a second care stage via the user interface based on the heart rate of the infant, the SpO 2 of the infant, or a combination thereof.

Assignees

• Gen Electric

Inventors

• Cipriano James Patrick
• Underwood Thomas Charles
• Falk Steven Mitchell
• Pirtini Cetingul Muge
• Starr Karen P

Classifications

• A61B5/28

  for electrocardiography [ECG] · CPC title

• A61B5/343

  Potential distribution indication · CPC title

• A61B5/33

  specially adapted for cooperation with other devices · CPC title

• A61B5/346

  Analysis of electrocardiograms · CPC title

• A61G2203/46

  for temperature · CPC title