Tracking Device for Rescue Event Electronic Records
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Solution Overview
Problem
Medical devices used outside clinical environments often fail to communicate vital patient information to subsequent care providers, leading to discontinuity in care and potential endangerment of patients upon transfer to clinical settings.
Innovation Solution
A tracking device that detects signals from medical devices, such as images, sounds, or electromagnetic signals, to generate an electronic record including device identifiers, physiological parameters, and treatment information, which can be transmitted to external devices for review by clinicians.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a medical device is used outside a clinical environment, then the device can provide immediate treatment to the patient, but the device fails to communicate vital patient information to subsequent care providers
Solution Approach 1:
A tracking device serves as an intermediary between the medical device and external systems. The tracking device detects signals from the medical device (such as device identifiers, physiological parameters, and treatment information) and transmits this information to external devices, enabling care providers to access vital patient information even when the medical device cannot directly communicate with external systems
Solution Approach 2:
The tracking device creates a copy of the patient information and treatment data from the medical device. This copied information is then transmitted to external devices, ensuring that care providers receive accurate patient records without requiring direct communication between the medical device and external systems
2Ease of operation
If the medical device cannot directly communicate with external systems, then the device maintains simplicity and ease of operation, but critical treatment information is lost during patient transfer
Solution Approach 1:
The tracking device acts as a mediator that automatically captures and transmits treatment information from the medical device without requiring complex direct communication protocols. This maintains the simplicity of the medical device while ensuring treatment information is preserved and transmitted to external systems
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AI summary
Techniques for generating and updating electronic records of rescue events are described. In a rescue scene, a medical device monitors and/or treats a patient. An example tracking device determines an identifier of the medical device by analyzing a signal corresponding to a medical device. In addition, the tracking device identifies a physiological parameter of the patient. The tracking device generates an electronic record of the patient that includes the identifier and the physiological parameter. The tracking device further outputs the electronic record.