Medical device adaptive control for hostile environment
AssigneeCareFusion 303, Inc.
InventorsJay Jyotindra Dave, Igor Nesterenko
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Abstract
A medical device is configured to monitor, using one or more sensors, an environmental condition of a physical environment proximate to a medical device, and to determine when a value representative of the environmental condition exceeds a threshold for safe operation of the medical device with regard to care of a patient. Responsive to the value exceeding the threshold, an operation mode of the medical device is automatically switched from a first mode currently programmed for the care of the patient to a second mode, the second mode using different parameters than the first mode to control the medical device.
Claims19
A method, comprising:
- monitoring, using one or more sensors, an environmental condition of a physical environment proximate to a medical device;
- determining a value representative of the environmental condition exceeds a threshold for safe operation of the medical device with regard to care of a patient;
- and
- automatically switching, responsive to the value exceeding the threshold, an operation mode of the medical device from a first mode currently programmed for the care of the patient and that comprises determining an operation performance of a hardware device based on a first sensor measurement to a second mode that comprises disabling use of the first sensor measurement and determining the operation performance based on a software algorithm that does not use the first sensor measurement.
A medical device, comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- memory including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the medical device to:
- monitor, using one or more sensors, an environmental condition of a physical environment proximate to the medical device;
- determine a value representative of the environmental condition exceeds a threshold for safe operation of the medical device with regard to care of a patient;
- and
- automatically switch, responsive to the value exceeding the threshold, an operation mode of the medical device from a first mode currently programmed for the care of the patient and that comprises determining an operation performance of a hardware device based on a first sensor measurement to a second mode that comprises disabling use of the first sensor measurement and determining the operation performance based on a software algorithm that does not use the first sensor measurement.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium embodying instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- monitoring, using one or more sensors, an environmental condition of a physical environment proximate to a medical device;
- determining a value representative of the environmental condition exceeds a threshold for safe operation of the medical device with regard to care of a patient;
- and
- automatically switching, responsive to the value exceeding the threshold, an operation mode of the medical device from a first mode currently programmed for the care of the patient and that comprises determining an operation performance of a hardware device based on a first sensor measurement to a second mode that comprises disabling use of the first sensor measurement and determining the operation performance based on a software algorithm that does not use the first sensor measurement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.