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AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsPatrick Guiney, William Douglas Grube, John Mardirosian, Scott Alan Wuthrich, Simon Edward Kozin
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A device (200) which includes a monitoring unit (210), a therapy unit (220), and a display (100) that includes a touch screen (110). The monitoring unit (210) can be configured to monitor a person's vital signs, such as a person's electrocardiogram (ECG). The therapy unit (220) can be configured to administer an electric shock. The display (100) can be configured to display the ECG and enable a user to scroll the displayed ECG back and forth and/or to zoom in and zoom out the displayed ECG by touching the touch screen (110). The display (100) can also be configured to enable the user to select two or more separate segments of the ECG to view together at the same time on the display (100), which segments can be separated by intervening segments of the ECG that can be hidden from being viewed on the display (100). The display (100) can have multiple user-interface windows (120, 130). One window (120) can be configured to only display functions related to the monitor unit (210) and/or the therapy unit (220), while another window (130) can be configured to display software applications, including an electronic patient care record (ePCR) application.
A medical device, comprising:
A method of manufacturing a medical device including a monitor defibrillator, an application processor and a display, the method comprising the steps of:
A method of using a medical device comprising a monitor defibrillator, an application processor, and a display unit having a touch screen, the method comprising the steps of:
A medical device comprising:
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Heart defibrillators: user interfaces for automatic external defibrillators
Heart defibrillators: monitoring; Protecting
Electrotherapy
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The present disclosure relates to, e.g., medical devices and systems, and more particularly to novel and inventive monitor defibrillators with a touch screen user interface for electrocardiogram (ECG) review and therapy, and monitor defibrillators having a touchscreen with additional user interface window(s).
Currently, monitor defibrillators are not known to be available with touch screen displays. There are many reasons for this, including, e.g., that users of monitor defibrillators often wear rubber gloves (sometimes two pairs of rubber gloves). Common touch screen technologies generally do not work properly if the user is wearing rubber gloves, especially when the gloves prevent the user's fingers from sliding smoothly across display's glass surface, for example. Additionally, device displays are sometimes exposed to rain and other fluids. Common touch screen technologies do not work properly when fluid droplets are present on display's glass surface, especially if the fluid is electrically conductive, which it is typically.
Thus, although touch screens are currently not known to be available on monitor defibrillators for such reasons, touch screen displays are available and used in many tablet computers and smart phones that are currently available. Typically, users utilize the touch screens built into these products to interact with them in the following two ways:
The foregoing forms and other forms of the present invention as well as various features and advantages of the present invention will become further apparent from the following detailed description of various embodiments of the present invention read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. The detailed description and drawings are merely illustrative of the present invention rather than limiting, the scope of the present invention being defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof.
FIG. 1 illustrates an exemplary embodiment of a monitor defibrillator display in accordance with the present invention that includes two user interface windows on the same touchscreen.
FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary embodiment of a primary unit of a monitor defibrillator into which a touchscreen in accordance with the present invention is integrated.
To facilitate an understanding of the present invention, exemplary embodiments of the present invention are described herein with reference to the accompanying figures.
For example, in addition to the solutions and advantages provided above in connection with specific issues/problems, exemplary embodiments of a monitor defibrillator according to the present invention disclosed and described herein can have a graphical user interface that utilizes touch screen technology to provide one or more (or all) of the following important features/functionality:
Easy to use (e.g., intuitive user controls);