# US 2017/0281016 A1 · Rescue scene video transmission > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2017/0281016 A1 - Document ID: US20170281016A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/485,277 - Filed: 2017-04-12 - Published: 2017-10-05 - Earliest claimed: 2012-06-29 - Assignees: ZOLL Medical Corporation - Applicants: ZOLL Medical Corporation - Inventors: Ziad F. Elghazzawi - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20170281016A1 ## CPC - A61B 5/0205: Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition - A61N 1/3993: {User interfaces for automatic external defibrillators} - H04N 7/181: {for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources} - H04W 4/90: Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS] - A61B 5/0006: {ECG or EEG signals} - A61B 5/0013: {Medical image data (A61B1/00011, A61B6/56, A61B8/56 take precedence)} - A61B 5/0022: {Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet} - H04W 4/70: Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] - A61B: DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (usefulness limited to only animals A61D) - A61N: ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY (measurement of bioelectric currents A61B; surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body A61B18/00; anaesthetic apparatus in general A61M; incandescent lamps H01K; infrared radiators for heating H05B) - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract A defibrillator or monitoring system may comprise a defibrillator, at least one video camera configured to acquire a video of a subject being treated by the defibrillator, a data collection unit configured to collect data associated with the subject, a communications unit configured to establish a communication channel between the defibrillator system and an emergency response center; and a processing unit configured to cause transmission to the emergency response center of at least one of the video of the subject and the data associated with the subject. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A defibrillator system comprising: an external defibrillator; a chest compression sensor communicatively coupled to the external defibrillator and configured to generate signals indicative of chest compression parameter data for chest compressions provided to a medical rescue subject one or more video cameras communicatively coupled to the external defibrillator and configured to acquire at least one video of the medical rescue subject, communications circuitry comprising a transmitter and a receiver together configured to establish a bi-directional communication channel between the defibrillator system and an emergency response center, and processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the communications circuitry, the processing circuitry comprising one or more processors configured to: receive the signals indicative of the chest compression parameter data from the chest compression sensor, receive the at least one video from the one or more video cameras, evaluate an available bandwidth of the bi-directional communication channel, control transmission to the emergency response center of the at least one video and the chest compression parameter data, based on the available bandwidth of the bi-directional communication channel, wherein the transmission is via the transmitter. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The defibrillator system of claim 1 wherein one or more of the communications circuitry and the processing circuitry are disposed in the external defibrillator. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The defibrillator system of claim 1 comprising a mobile computing device communicatively coupled to the external defibrillator. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The defibrillator system of claim 3 wherein one or more of the communications circuitry and the processing circuitry are disposed in the mobile computing device. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The defibrillator system of claim 3 wherein the mobile computing device is one of a tablet computing device or a mobile communications device. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The defibrillator system of claim 1 wherein the one or more processors are configured to evaluate whether the available bandwidth of the bi-directional communication channel is below a threshold that is pre-determined based on an expected quantity of subject monitoring data. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The defibrillator system of claim 6 wherein the one or more processors are configured to preferentially transmit the subject monitoring data if the available bandwidth of the bi-directional communication channel is below the threshold that is pre-determined based on the expected quantity of subject monitoring data. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The defibrillator system of claim 1 comprising one or more medical sensors communicatively coupled to the one or more processors and configured to send medical sensor data to the one or more processors. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The defibrillator system of claim 8 wherein the one or more processors are configured to: receive the medical sensor data, send, via the transmitter, to the emergency response center, a list of types of medical sensor data available in the received medical sensor data; receive, via the receiver, from the emergency response center, selected types of medical sensor data from the list of the types of medical sensor data available in the received medical sensor data; and control transmission, via the transmitter, to the emergency response center, of the selected types of medical sensor data based on the available bandwidth of the bi-directional communication channel. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The defibrillator system of claim 9 wherein the types of medical sensor data comprise one or more of electrocardiogram (ECG) data, oxygen saturation data, cardiac output data, heart rate data, heart sound data, heart imaging data, and impedance cardiography data. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The defibrillator system of claim 1 comprising a microphone configured to detect audio at a site of the medical rescue subject and comprising speakers configured to audibly provide audio information transmitted from the emergency response center and received at the receiver. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The defibrillator system of claim 11 wherein the one or more processors are configured to, based on the available bandwidth of the bi-directional communication channel, control transmission, via the transmitter, of the detected audio to the emergency response center to preferentially allow reception the audio information transmitted from the emergency response center. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The defibrillator system of claim 11 wherein the audio information comprises cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instructions. ### Claim 14 (depends on 11) The defibrillator system of claim 11 wherein the audio information comprises one or more of instructions as to how to open electrode packaging, instructions as to how to place electrodes on the medical rescue subject, and instructions as to how to place one or more medical sensors on the medical rescue subject and the one or more processors are configured to control the speakers to audibly provide the one or more of the instructions as to how to open electrode packaging, the instructions as to how to place electrodes on the medical rescue subject, and the instructions as to how to place the one or more medical sensors on the medical rescue subject. ### Claim 15 (depends on 11) The defibrillator system of claim 11 comprising a mobile computing device communicatively coupled to the external defibrillator wherein the microphone and the speakers are disposed in the mobile computing device. ### Claim 16 (depends on 11) The defibrillator system of claim 11 wherein the microphone and the speakers are disposed in the external defibrillator. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The defibrillator system of claim 1 comprising a ventilation device communicatively coupled to the external defibrillator wherein the one or more processors are configured to control transmission of ventilation data, received from the ventilation device, to the emergency response center based on the available bandwidth of the bi-directional communication channel. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The defibrillator system of claim 1 wherein the communications circuitry is configured to provide one or more of short range wireless communications and long range wireless communications. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) The defibrillator system of claim 1 wherein the chest compression parameter data comprises data for one or more of sternal motion, compression velocity, compression depth, duty cycle, downstroke velocity, upstroke velocity, intrathoracic pressure, pleural pressure, sternal position, sternal velocity, sternal acceleration, sternal strain, sternal deformation, compression force, and compression pressure. ### Claim 20 (depends on 1) The defibrillator system of claim 1 comprising a mechanical chest compression device wherein the chest compression parameter data is associated with chest compressions delivered to the medical rescue subject by the mechanical chest compression device.