Monitoring, predicting and treating clinical episodes
AssigneeEarlysense Ltd.
InventorsAvner Halperin, Guy Meger
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Abstract
Apparatus and methods are described, including apparatus for use with a plurality of clinicians. The apparatus includes a patient-monitoring system. A clinical sensor measures a clinical parameter of a patient, and generates a clinical-sensor signal in response thereto. In response to the clinical-sensor signal, a control unit determines that an alert event has occurred, and communicates an alert to a first subset of the plurality of clinicians before communicating the alert to any other clinician. The control unit designates the first subset of the plurality of clinicians in response to respective numbers of alerts that the plurality of clinicians have received within a previous given time period. Other applications are also described.
Claims9
Apparatus comprising:
- a location sensing system that comprises a plurality of location sensors, the location sensing system being configured to:
- identify respective locations of a plurality of clinicians, and
- generate a location-sensing-system signal in response thereto;
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- a patient-monitoring system comprising:
- a clinical sensor, configured to measure a clinical parameter of a patient,
- and to generate a clinical-sensor signal in response thereto;
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- a control unit configured to:
- in response to the clinical-sensor signal, determine that an alert event has occurred,
- in response to the location-sensing-system signal, designate a first subset of the clinicians,
- in response to having determined that the alert event has occurred, communicate a first alert to the first subset of clinicians, and
- in response to the location-sensing-system signal indicating that no clinician from the first subset of clinicians is within a given distance of the patient, within a given time period of the first alert, communicate a second alert.
Apparatus comprising:
- a location sensing system that comprises a plurality of location sensors, the location sensing system being configured to:
- identify respective locations of a plurality of clinicians, and
- generate a location-sensing-system signal in response thereto;
- and
- a patient-monitoring system comprising:
- a clinical sensor, configured to measure a clinical parameter of a patient,
- and to generate a clinical-sensor signal in response thereto;
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- a control unit configured to:
- in response to the clinical-sensor signal, determine that an alert event has occurred,
- in response to the location-sensing-system signal, designate a first subset of the clinicians,
- in response to having determined that the alert event has occurred, communicate a first alert to the first subset of clinicians, and
- in response to the location-sensing-system signal indicating that no clinician from the first subset of clinicians is moving toward the patient within a given time period, communicate a second alert to the first subset of clinicians.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.