Breathing Apparatus Display With User Selectable Background

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Solution Overview

Problem

Breathing apparatuses in intensive care units, particularly in neonatal care, create a stressful environment for secondary users due to their complex and technocratic appearance, which can be overwhelming and anxiety-inducing despite efforts to create a harmonious atmosphere.

Innovation Solution

A simplified graphical user interface (GUI) called the 'family view' is introduced, featuring background images that cover a large portion of the display with a limited number of operational parameters, allowing secondary users to view essential metrics without the complexity of clinical expert views, while clinical operators can easily switch back to expert mode.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the display shows detailed operational parameters and clinical data, then clinical personnel can monitor patient status effectively, but secondary users experience increased stress and anxiety

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveclinical monitoring effectivenessVSAvoidstress and anxiety for secondary users

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The display interface is segmented into multiple views: a clinical expert view showing detailed operational parameters for medical personnel, and a family view showing simplified information for secondary users. This segmentation allows each user group to see only the information appropriate to their needs, resolving the contradiction between comprehensive clinical monitoring and reducing secondary user stress.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different regions or modes of the display provide different information densities and types. The clinical view provides high information density with detailed parameters, while the family view provides low information density with simplified metrics. This local quality differentiation allows the same device to serve multiple user groups with appropriate information for each.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

2Object-affected harmful factors

If the display shows simplified information for secondary users, then stress and anxiety are reduced, but access to critical clinical information becomes limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestress and anxiety for secondary usersVSAvoidaccess to critical clinical information

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The display interface is dynamic and can switch between different views based on user needs. Clinical personnel can immediately switch from the simplified family view to the detailed clinical expert view when critical information is needed, ensuring that information access is not permanently limited but adaptively adjusted to current needs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The display system serves multiple functions: it provides simplified monitoring for family members during normal periods, and immediately provides comprehensive clinical data when needed by medical personnel. This multi-functionality allows the same interface to reduce stress during routine periods while maintaining full clinical capability when required.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Adaptability or versatility

If the interface provides multiple views and modes, then both clinical and secondary user needs are met, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinterface adaptability to different usersVSAvoidinterface complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates different visual representations (copies) of the same underlying clinical data. Rather than creating separate systems, it generates simplified copies of the data for family views and detailed copies for clinical views, allowing multiple interface types to be derived from a single data source, thus managing complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS10540067B2Breathing apparatus having a display with user selectable background

Publication Date: 2020.01.21 MAQUET CRITICAL CARE

AI summary

A breathing apparatus and system include a breathing apparatus having a display, an internal memory unit, and a processing unit, and optionally an interface for connecting at least an external memory unit to the apparatus; optionally an external memory unit connectable to the breathing apparatus via the interface; wherein the processing unit is in operative communication with the display, the internal memory unit, and/or the external memory unit when connected to the apparatus via the interface, and the processing unit is configured to provide on at least a portion of the display, a user selectable background stored on at least one of the internal and/or external memory unit, such as a background image, or a background color different than a factory default background color that is not selectable by a user.