Medical device and method for operating a medical device

US10984908B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• DRÄGERWERK AG & CO. KGAA · DE

Inventors

• Götz Kullik · Wulfen, DE
• Stefan Schlichting · Lübeck, DE
• Alexander Loose · Reinfeld, DE
• Tim Weinmann · Neckartenzlingen, DE
• Hinrich ALTHOFF · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 20, 2017
• Grant date: Apr 20, 2021
• Expiry date: Nov 21, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L2209/88
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A medical device includes a network interface, a processor unit, a memory unit, an actuator physiologically acting on a patient and/or a sensor interface detecting a sensor signal indicative of a patient physiological parameter. The network interface receives a sender network identity data message, a sender authorization level and a sender change request to change an actuator operating parameter and/or a predefined alarm detection value. The memory unit provides a predefined minimum authorization level. The processor unit determines an actual authorization of the sender to change the operating parameter and/or to predefine a value on the basis of the sender authorization level and of the predefined minimum authorization level as well as to change the operating parameter as a function of the result of the determination and/or to perform a detection of an alarm generation state as a function of the indicated predefined value and of the sensor signal.