Cardiac arrest monitor and aed integration

A cardiac arrest detection and treatment kit comprising:

• a monitor having a first transmitter, the monitor configured to detect a potential cardiac arrest in a patient monitored by the monitor, and to cause the first transmitter to wirelessly transmit a first incident notification in response to the detection of the potential cardiac arrest;
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• an automated external defibrillator (AED) separate from and associated with the monitor, the AED including a first communication unit configured to communicate with a remotely located server and a second communications unit configured to at least one of send or receive short-range wireless communications, the AED configured to wirelessly receive at least one of the first incident notification transmitted by the cardiac monitor or a second incident notification received from the remotely located server that is directly or indirectly triggered by the first incident notification, the AED being further configured to,
• (i) in response to reception of the first or second incident notification, generate a human perceptible incident alert to inform individuals that are nearby the AED associated with the cardiac monitor of the potential cardiac arrest to thereby encourage such individuals to respond to the potential cardiac arrest incident using the AED, and
• (ii) communicate with the remotely located server regarding the potential cardiac arrest incident.

An automated external defibrillator (AED) comprising:

• a shock delivery circuit capable of delivering a defibrillation shock;
• a processor;
• memory that is accessible by the processor;
• a receiver configured to wirelessly receive a beacon transmitted by a cardiac arrest monitor indicating that the cardiac arrest monitor has detected a potential cardiac arrest in a patient monitored by the cardiac monitor;
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• programed instruction stored in the memory, the programmed instructions including, beacon handling code configured to decode the beacon and incident alert code configured to, in response to reception of the beacon, generate a human perceptible incident alert to inform individuals that are nearby both the cardiac monitor and the AED of the potential cardiac arrest to thereby encourage such individuals to respond to the potential cardiac arrest incident using the AED.

An automated external defibrillator (AED) comprising:

• a shock delivery circuit capable of delivering a defibrillation shock;
• a receiver configured to wirelessly receive a first incident notification transmitted by a cardiac monitor indicating that the cardiac monitor has detected a potential cardiac arrest in a patient monitored by the cardiac monitor;
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• wherein the AED is configured to, in response to reception of the first incident notification, (i) generate a human perceptible incident alert to inform individuals that are nearby both the cardiac monitor and the AED of the potential cardiac arrest to thereby encourage such individuals to respond to the potential cardiac arrest incident using the AED, and (ii) wirelessly transmit a second incident notification suitable for direct reception by one or more additional AEDs in the vicinity the AED to thereby cause each additional AED to generate an associated human perceptible incident alert whereby the AED effectively acts to relay the first incident notifications to the one or more additional AEDs.

A method comprising:

• by a cardiac arrest monitor, detecting a potential cardiac arrest incident;
• by the cardiac arrest monitor, sending a first incident notification directly or indirectly to a monitor management server in real time during the detected potential cardiac arrest incident to thereby inform the monitor management server of the potential cardiac arrest incident;
• by the monitor management server, sending a second incident notification directly or indirectly to an AED management server in real time during the detected potential cardiac arrest incident to thereby inform the AED management server of the potential cardiac arrest incident;
• by the AED management server, sending a third incident notification directly or indirectly to an AED associated with the cardiac arrest monitor in real time during the detected potential cardiac arrest incident;
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• by the AED, in response to reception of the third incident notification, generating a human perceptible incident alert to inform individuals that are nearby the AED of the potential cardiac arrest to thereby encourage such individuals to respond to the potential cardiac arrest incident using the AED.