Method and system for monitoring the course of therapy of a patient being therapeutically treated

US7066883B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Volker Schmidt · Lexington, US
• Siegfried Schneider · Erlangen, DE
• Sven Tiffe · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 7, 2002
• Grant date: Jun 27, 2006
• Expiry date: May 11, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S128/92
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a method and system for monitoring the course of therapy administered to a patient, at least one information value that requires a therapeutic and/or diagnostic measure and that is a direct or indirect measure of the course of the therapy is registered continuously or in time intervals, and at least one comparison value, to be compared to the information value or to a calculated value determined based on the information value, is allocated to the information value. An alarm signal is emitted given an impermissible deviation of the information value or of the calculated value from the comparison value and is detected in the course of the comparison. The comparison value is varied dependent on the course of the therapy and is adapted to the course of the therapy, the adaptation of ensuing automatically or by means of an authorized person or entity.