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AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsCaeli B.D. Rice, Jaron M. Acker, John E. Klaus, John R. Pinkert
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Abstract
An optimized system for providing medical support to a patient is disclosed. The system has a plurality of modular components that may be assembled to create a connection between a support machine and the patient wherein at least one of the modular components comprises an information tag for the storage of data and at least one of the modular components comprises an information sensor for the reading and transmission of the data. Once read and transmitted by the sensor, the data may be used to optimize the operation of the support machine.
Claims21
1-25. (canceled)
A method of providing respiratory support to a patient, the method comprising:
- providing a breathing circuit with at least one modular component comprising an information tag comprising information tag data;
- detecting the information tag data from the information tag with a tag sensor;
- modifying at least one algorithm in a controller with the detected information tag data from the information tag;
- providing respiratory support to the patient through the breathing circuit according to the modified at least one algorithm.
A method of providing respiratory support to a patient, the method comprising:
- providing a controller comprising a gas delivery algorithm;
- providing a breathing circuit by pneumatically connecting a first modular component comprising a first information tag comprising first information tag data to a second modular component comprising a second information tag comprising second information tag data;
- detecting the first information tag data from the first information tag and the second information tag data from the second information tag with at least one tag sensor;
- modifying the gas delivery algorithm in the controller with the detected first information tag data and the second information tag data;
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- providing respiratory support to the patient through the breathing circuit according to the modified at least one algorithm.
A method of providing respiratory support to a patient, the method comprising:
- interconnecting a plurality of modular components to establish a fluid connection between mechanical ventilator and the patient, at least one of the plurality of modular components having an information tag comprising associated data;
- detecting the associated data of the information tag of the at least one of the plurality of modular components;
- transmitting the detected associated data to a controller having a plurality of controller data used to operate the mechanical ventilator;
- modifying the controller data with the detected associated data;
- operating the mechanical ventilator with the controller according to the detected associated data;
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- generating a flow of medical gas to be delivered to the patient with the mechanical ventilator according to the detected associated data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.