# US 2008/0184576 A1 · Medical Treatment Aid For Use in Treating Children

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- Number: US 2008/0184576 A1
- Document ID: US20080184576A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 11/914,395
- Filed: 2006-05-11
- Published: 2008-08-07
- Earliest claimed: 2005-05-14
- Inventors: Timothy Hodgetts; Peter Francis Mahoney; William Grant Phillip Eardley; Linda Orr; Christopher Russell Wright
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20080184576A1

## CPC

- A61B 5/7264: {Classification of physiological signals or data, e.g. using neural networks, statistical classifiers, expert systems or fuzzy systems}
- A61B 5/1072: {measuring distances on the body, e.g. measuring length, height or thickness (A61B5/1076 takes precedence)}
- G16H 50/20: for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
- A61B: DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (usefulness limited to only animals A61D)
- G16H: HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA

## Abstract

A medical treatment aid is described which allows for the rapid classification of child patients in an emergency, casualty or trauma room environment, and further displays treatment information relevant to the classification of the patient in a readily accessible manner.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A medical treatment aid comprising a flexible sheet provided with a central panel having gradations upon which patients can be laid, which gradations immediately enable the patient to be classified by size and one or more peripheral areas which present charts or tables or diagrams relating to dosages of drugs and/or sizes of equipment to be used on the patient according to that classification.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A medical treatment aid as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gradations on the central panel show correspondence of patient length with a range of particularly easily identifiable symbols.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

A medical treatment aid as claimed in claim 2, wherein the particularly easily identifiable symbols are pictorial representations of animals.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

A medical treatment aid as claimed in claim 1 wherein the peripheral areas show information regarding sizes of equipment to be used in the form of silhouettes.

### Claim 5

A medical treatment aid comprising a flexible sheet provided with a central panel upon which patients can be laid and one or more peripheral areas which present charts relating to dosages of drugs and/or sizes of equipment to be used on the patient depending on weight, further comprising a weight-sensing means in the central panel which gives an actual measurement of weight of any patient placed upon it.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

A medical treatment aid as claimed in claim 5, wherein the weight-sensing means displays the weight of the patient in the form of one of several easily identifiable gradated classifications.

### Claim 7 (depends on 5)

A medical treatment aid as claimed in claim 5, further comprising a computing device which rapidly calculates selected drug dosages automatically in response to the weight of the patient upon the central panel.