Physiological Monitor Profile Switching With Visual Configuration Cues
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing physiological monitors lack operational flexibility, requiring different settings for various healthcare environments and patient types, leading to challenges in configuring them efficiently across multiple locations and applications.
Innovation Solution
A monitor configuration system that allows for user-defined default settings, indicated by color-coded indicators, enabling quick recognition and adjustment of profiles through front-panel controls, plug-in memory devices, or wireless communication, ensuring appropriate settings for specific environments and patient types.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple user-defined configuration profiles are implemented, then adaptability to different healthcare environments is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The configuration system is segmented into multiple independent profiles, each representing a complete set of settings for a specific healthcare environment. Users can create, store, and switch between these discrete profiles without affecting the underlying system complexity, as each profile is self-contained and independently manageable.
Solution Approach 2:
Configuration profiles are pre-defined and prepared in advance for common healthcare scenarios. This preliminary action allows users to simply select from pre-configured options rather than manually configuring each parameter, thereby improving adaptability while minimizing the complexity burden on users during actual operation.
2Ease of operation
If visual indicators for profile selection are added, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Visual indicators such as color-coded icons or highlighted display elements are used to indicate the currently active configuration profile. This allows users to quickly identify and switch between profiles through intuitive visual cues, improving ease of operation while keeping the interface design systematic and manageable.
3Adaptability or versatility
If configuration profiles can be transferred between monitors, then adaptability is improved, but loss of time occurs during transfer operations
Solution Approach 1:
Configuration profiles are designed to be copied and transferred between different monitor units. The system enables rapid duplication of profile data from one monitor to another through communication interfaces, allowing profiles to be ported across devices without manual reconfiguration, thereby improving adaptability while minimizing transfer time through automated data replication.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Facilitates rapid and accurate configuration of monitors to suit different healthcare settings, reducing the risk of accidental changes and enhancing operational efficiency by visually confirming the active profile.
Implementation Method 1
A pulse oximetry sensor has light emitting diodes (LEDs), typically one emitting a red wavelength and one emitting an infrared (IR) wavelength, and a photodiode detector
Implementation Method 2
The detector generates a signal responsive to the emitted light after attenuation by pulsatile blood flow within the tissue site
Data Source
AI summary
A monitor configuration system which communicates with a physiological sensor, the monitor configuration system including one or more processors and an instrument manager module running on the one or more processors. At least one of the one or more processors communicates with the sensor and calculates at least one physiological parameters responsive to the sensor. The instrument manager controls the calculation, display and/or alarms based upon the physiological parameters. A configuration indicator identifies the configuration profile. In one aspect of the invention, the physiological sensor is a optical sensor that includes at least one light emitting diode and at least one detector.