Concerted alarm handling for a group of dialysis apparatuses
AssigneeFresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
InventorStefan Wegner
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Abstract
Concerted processing of a multiplicity of local apparatus status messages from dialysis apparatuses can be performed to enhance the quality of patient care delivered using the dialysis apparatuses. Typically, the dialysis apparatuses are operated in a group. A control agent, as described herein, performs a central calculation of prioritised warning messages for the group of dialysis apparatuses. The prioritisation is calculated in a concerted calculation according to a preconfigured system of rules.
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A networked status message system for a group of dialysis apparatuses, the system comprising:
- the group of dialysis apparatuses, wherein each dialysis apparatus comprises a local signal device configured to detect local dialysis apparatus status messages and to transmit the local dialysis apparatus status messages to a control agent;
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- the control agent configured to receive the local dialysis apparatus status messages and comprising an evaluation circuit, the evaluation circuit configured for:
- (i) accessing a system of rules and (ii) prioritizing the local dialysis apparatus status messages based on the system of rules to calculate prioritised warning messages for the group of dialysis apparatuses on the basis of the detected, local apparatus status messages,
- wherein the control agent is configured to transmit the calculated, prioritised warning messages to:
- (i) only the local signal devices of the group of dialysis apparatuses that transmitted one or more of the local dialysis apparatus status messages to the control agent and (ii) none of the local signal devices of the group of dialysis apparatuses that did not transmit one or more of the local dialysis apparatus status messages to the control agent, and
- wherein each of the local signal devices is configured to receive and display one or more of the calculated, prioritised warning messages.
A control agent system for calculating prioritised warning messages for a group of dialysis apparatuses, the control agent system comprising:
- an input interface configured to receive local apparatus status messages from the group of dialysis apparatuses;
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- an evaluator configured to access a system of rules and for evaluation of the received local apparatus status messages based on the system of rules to calculate prioritised warning messages for the group of dialysis apparatuses,
- wherein the evaluator is also configured to transmit the calculated prioritised warning messages via an output interface to:
- (i) each dialysis apparatus of the group of dialysis apparatuses from which one or more of the local apparatus status messages were received by the control agent and (ii) no dialysis apparatuses of the group of dialysis apparatuses from which none of the local apparatus status messages were received by the control agent, and
- wherein the prioritised warning messages are transmitted for display only by each dialysis apparatus from which one or more of the local apparatus status messages were received by the control agent and for control thereof based on the prioritised warning messages.
A method for coordinated control of a group of dialysis apparatuses, the method comprising:
- detecting local apparatus status messages from one or more dialysis apparatuses of the group of dialysis apparatuses;
- collecting and consolidating all of the detected, local apparatus status messages over a period of time;
- evaluating all of the collected and consolidated, detected, local apparatus status messages in order to calculate, in a concerted manner and using a system or rules, prioritised warning messages for the one or more dialysis apparatuses of the group of dialysis apparatuses that detected at least one of the local apparatus status messages;
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- transmitting the prioritised warning messages to:
- (i) the one or more dialysis apparatuses of the group of dialysis apparatuses that detected at least one of the local apparatus status messages and (ii) none of the dialysis apparatuses of the group of dialysis apparatus that did not detect a local apparatus status message,
- wherein the prioritised warning messages are transmitted for display only by the one or more dialysis apparatuses of the group of dialysis apparatus that detected at least one of the local apparatus status messages and for coordinated control thereof on the basis of the transmitted, prioritised warning messages.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.