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US 9,852,265 B1Granted
System and method of medical device alarm management
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsStephen Thomas Treacy, Marriaine Sien Hak, Mary Jane Stover
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Abstract
Systems and methods of medical device alarm management include receiving alarm data from a plurality of medical devices. The alarm data includes a plurality of alarms from the plurality of medical devices. A summary of the received alarms from the plurality of medical devices is visually presented. Upon receiving a selection of a medical device of the plurality of medical devices, an identification of each of the alarms from the selected medical device is visually presented. A frequency of each of the alarms from the selected medical device is visually presented.
Claims22
A system for medical device alarm management, the system comprising:
- a plurality of medical devices that produce medical device data and generate a plurality of alarms based upon analysis of the medical device data;
- a processor that receives alarm data identifying each of the plurality of alarms from each of the plurality of medical devices, the processor receives the medical device data from the plurality of medical devices and categorizes each of the plurality of alarms in the alarm data into a plurality of alarm types based upon the alarm data, and aggregates the alarm data to a total number of alarms, the processor calculates a device contribution to the plurality of alarms by each device of the plurality of medical devices;
- a graphical display operable by the processor to visually present a summary of the plurality of alarms identified in the received alarm data, the summary comprising the total number of alarms, the device contribution to the plurality of alarms by each device, and an alarm type from the plurality of alarm types for each of the plurality of alarms;
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- a user input device communicatively connected to the processor and operable to receive at least one user input of a selection of a medical device of the plurality of medical devices wherein upon receiving the selection of the medical device, the processor operates the graphical display to visually present an identification of each of the alarms from the selected medical device and a frequency of each alarm identification of the plurality of alarms from the selected medical device.
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A method of medical device alarm management, the method comprising:
- receiving alarm data from a plurality of medical devices, the alarm data comprising a plurality of alarms from the plurality of medical devices;
- aggregating a total alarm burden from the total number of alarms from each of the plurality of medical devices;
- calculating a contribution by each medical device to the total alarm burden;
- creating a summary of the received alarm data from the plurality of medical devices by determining an alarm identification of each alarm of the plurality of alarms and frequency of each alarm identification in the plurality of alarms;
- visually presenting the calculated contribution by each medical device to the total alarm burden;
- visually presenting the summary of alarms received from the plurality of medical devices;
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- upon receiving a selection of a medical device of the plurality of medical devices, visually presenting the alarm identifications of each of the alarms from the selected medical device and the frequency of each alarm identification of the plurality of alarms from the selected medical device.
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A method of medical device alarm management, the method comprising:
- receiving alarm data from a plurality of medical devices, the alarm data comprising a plurality of alarms from the plurality of medical devices;
- receiving medical device data from the plurality of medical devices, the medical device data having been processed by a respective medical device of the plurality of medical devices using at least one alarm parameter to initiate the plurality of alarms in the alarm data;
- visually presenting a summary of alarms received in the alarm data from the plurality of medical devices;
- aggregating a total alarm burden from a total number of alarms from each of the plurality of medical devices;
- calculating each medical device's contribution to the total alarm burden;
- visually presenting each medical device's contribution to the total alarm burden;
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- upon receiving a selection of a medical device of the plurality of medical devices, visually presenting an identification of each of the alarms from the selected medical device and a frequency of each alarm identification of the plurality of alarms from the selected medical device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.