US 10,311,696 B2 · Patient monitoring method and system providing incident grouping of alarm events

Abstract

A method of monitoring a patient includes recording physiological parameter data from the patient and detecting a first alarm event. A group alarm timer is activated based on an initiation time of the first alarm event, and one or more subsequent alarm events are detected while the group alarm timer is active. For each detected subsequent alarm event, a determination is made whether the respective subsequent alarm event is part of an incident group with the first alarm event. The group alarm timer is stopped at a termination time based on termination of all alarm events in the incident group. An incident group designator is generated identifying the incident group.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method of monitoring a patient, the method comprising:

recording physiological parameter data from the patient with a sensor device;
with a processor:
detecting a first alarm event;
activating a group alarm timer based on an initiation time of the first alarm event;
detecting one or more subsequent alarm events while the group alarm timer is active;
for each detected subsequent alarm event, determining whether the respective subsequent alarm event is part of an incident group with the first alarm event;
stopping the group alarm timer at a termination time based on termination of all alarm events in the incident group;
wherein the termination time is further based at least one of a clinician location or a clinician availability indicator;
and
generating an incident group designator identifying the incident group.

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A patient monitoring system comprising:

one or more sensor devices that record physiological parameter data from a patient;
a processor;
a location system that determines a clinician location;
an incident analysis module executable on the processor to:
receive a first alarm event;
receive a second alarm event;
determine that the second alarm event is part of an incident group with the first alarm event;
receive one or more subsequent alarm events while at least one of the first alarm event or the second alarm event is occurring or within a predetermined time after termination of the first alarm event or the second alarm event;
for each detected subsequent alarm event, determine whether the respective subsequent alarm event is part of an incident group with the first alarm event;
receive the clinician location and determine a termination time of the incident group based on the clinician location;
and
generate an incident group designator identifying the incident group.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Patient monitoring method and system providing incident grouping of alarm events

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Patient monitoring method and system providing incident grouping of alarm events

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Abstract

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