A capnography monitoring, notification, analysis, and drug delivery system for an individual person comprising
- a) a capnography device having an exhalation capture passage;
- an infrared source providing an infrared beam through said passage;
- an infrared sensor aligned opposite said infrared source to detect voltage variations associated with carbon dioxide concentrations, inspiration length, and expiration length within said individual's captured respiratory status;
- a microcomputer (MCU) programmed with a capnograph waveform generating algorithm;
- at least one radio frequency identification (RFID) tag;
- an optional data storage component other than said microcomputer;
- and a communication component including a WIFI antenna, a Bluetooth antenna, and, optionally, a cellular communicator;
- b) an external connectivity base comprising an inductive coupling component associated with said capnography device, a receiver component for reception of communicated information from said capnography device, a computer processor, and an information transfer component, wherein said external connectivity base computer processor is programmed with the same waveform generating algorithm as the capnography device;
- c) a data center comprising a rules engine, and a data center computer processor, wherein said data center computer processor is programmed with the same waveform generating algorithm as the capnography device;
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- d) at least one drug delivery device having an operating system programmed with the same waveform generating algorithm as the capnography device, wherein said at least one drug delivery device is automated, and wherein said drug delivery device operating system is further programmed with capnography waveform parameters associated with a drug for treatment of a subject patient therewith in relation to utilization of said capnography device;
- wherein said algorithm programmed within said capnography device, said external connectivity base, said data center, and said drug delivery device operating system compiles infrared sensor measurements from said infrared sensor to generate a capnograph waveform associated therewith,
- wherein said capnography device MCU further includes pre-set parameters associated with certain maximum and minimum carbon dioxide measurement concentrations, inspiration length measurement durations, and expiration length measurement durations as captured by said infrared sensor and compiled by said algorithm in a waveform,
- wherein, if at any time during utilization by said individual, said parameters are exceeded in terms of said maximum or below said minimum carbon dioxide concentrations for a pre-set continuous amount of time, then said capnography device MCU generates an alarm code associated specifically with said waveform measurements for communication and immediate notification to pre-selected parties as to a condition of said individual in relation to said exhalation carbon dioxide concentration measurements,
- wherein, upon such a notification action, said capnography device continues to capture carbon dioxide exhalation concentration measurements as raw data with transfer of said raw data from said capnography device MCU to at least one communication component of said at least one RFID tag, Bluetooth antenna, WIFI antenna, and/or cellular communicator for continuous transfer to at least said drug delivery device operating system and said external connectivity base, and, alternatively, also to said data center, and said capnography device MCU further generates said alarm code within said capnograph waveform generating algorithm therein as an indicator of a situation pertaining to said alarm generation,
- wherein said continuous transfer to said drug delivery device operating system and said external connectivity base and/or said data center is undertaken for transfer of the alarm situation whether in terms of patient/individual respiratory status or capnography device status via compilation of said continuously transferred raw data within said capnograph generating algorithm and verification and processing thereof;
- wherein said drug delivery device operating system is further programmed to provide delivery operation modification of said drug in response to said alarm code generation at said capnography device upon transfer, receipt, verification, and processing of said raw data from said capnography device MCU and generation of said waveform by said drug delivery device operating system capnography waveform generating algorithm such that any resultant waveform levels outside said parameters associated with said drug for said subject patient causes a drug delivery operation modification in response thereto,
- wherein said drug delivery operation modification is selected from the activities of activating said device, deactivating said device, increasing flow of drug delivery by said device, decreasing flow of drug delivery by said device, increasing concentrations of drug within flow delivery by said device, decreasing concentrations of drug within flow delivery by said device, and any combination or combinations thereof;
- wherein said capnography waveform generating algorithm located within all of said capnography device, said external connectivity base, said data center, and said drug delivery device operating system are configured to receive the same raw data from said capnography device and thus generate, as needed, the same capnography waveforms at all such locations, allowing for complete comparisons to assure said raw data and said capnography waveforms are proper;
- wherein said capnography device further receives power from and transfers information directly to said external connectivity base through said inductive coupling component upon placement of said capnography device within a certain proximity thereto of said external connectivity base;
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- wherein said inductive coupling is further configured to provide raw data transfer and alarm code notification to said external connectivity base upon discovery of defect within said capnography device for possible remedy thereof.