Anesthesia protocol system and method of controlling the same

US5560352A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hewlett-Packard Company, L.P. · US

Inventors

• Werner Heim · Swampscott, US
• Joachim Koeninger · Pforzheim, DE
• Christian Hickl · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 24, 1994
• Grant date: Oct 1, 1996
• Expiry date: Mar 24, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G16H70/20
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In an anesthesia protocol system, vital parameters and medication quantities are stored in a first data base in the form of real time curve signal values, said first data base being organized like a ring buffer. Typically, trend curve signal values are derived from the stored real time curve signal values, and an anesthesia protocol is produced automatically on the basis of these trend curve signal values. In order to simplify the operability of the anesthesia protocol system and to enhance the information content of the anesthesia protocol, a snapshot input device for activating a snapshot function is provided, a processing unit responding to the actuation of said snapshot input device for reading from the first data base the real time curve signal values which are assigned to a specific snapshot time domain and for storing them in the second data base as snapshot curve signal values, said second data base being not organized in the form of a ring buffer. The anesthesia protocol is produced on the basis of the trend curve signal values as well as on the basis of the snapshot curve signal values.