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Quality assurance method for a care delivery system
Assignee: Koninklijke Philips NV
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Filing: 1996-08-02
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Granted: 1997-10-07
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Expires: 2016-08-02
Abstract
Abstract A method for gathering event data using a data gathering instrument having an instrument clock and an instrument data storage medium, the method comprising the steps of: gathering event data using the data gathering instrument; storing the event data in an instrument data storage medium; using an instrument clock to associate time information with the event data; storing the associated time information in the instrument data storage medium; separating the instrument data storage medium from the data gathering instrument; separating the instrument clock from the data gathering instrument; and storing in a main data storage medium the event data and the time information stored in the instrument data storage medium. The invention also includes a data gathering system practicing this method, the data gathering instrument itself, and removable instrument clock and memory modules, preferably disposed together in a housing such as a PCMCIA format card.
Inventors
- 👤 Carlton B. Morgan
- 👤 Clinton Cole
- 👤 Daniel J. Powers
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-30 21:34
CPC Classifications
G; G01; G01D; G01D9/00; G01D9/005; A; A61; A61B; A61B5/00; A61B5/24; A61B5/316; A61B5/318; A61B5/333; G01D3/00; G01D3/02; G16; G16H; G16H15/00; G16H40/00; G16H40/60; G16H40/63; A61N; A61N1/00; A61N1/18; A61N1/32; A61N1/38; A61N1/39; A61N1/3904; A61N1/39044
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 8
Claim 1
Independent Claim
72 words
A quality assurance method for a care delivery system comprising the following steps: dispatching a defibrillator to treat a patient; deploying the defibrillator to gather event data; using a clock connected to the defibrillator to associate time information with the event data; separating the clock from the defibrillator; recovering in a main data recovery unit the event data and time information; and using the time information to assess care delivery system performance.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
72 words
A quality assurance method for a care delivery system comprising the following steps: dispatching a defibrillator to treat a patient; deploying the defibrillator to gather event data; using a clock connected to the defibrillator to associate time information with the event data; separating the clock from the defibrillator; recovering in a main data recovery unit the event data and time information; and using the time information to assess care delivery system performance.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
25 words
The method of claim 1 wherein the using step comprises calculating time between an external event and use of the defibrillator to treat the patient.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
26 words
The method of claim 2 wherein the calculating step comprises calculating time between dispatch of the defibrillator and use of the defibrillator to treat a patient.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
19 words
The method of claim 1 further comprising comparing the clock with a clock in the main data recovery unit.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
14 words
The method of claim 4 further comprising correcting the time information for time drift.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
85 words
A quality assurance method for a care delivery system comprising the following steps: dispatching a plurality of defibrillators to treat a plurality of patients; deploying the defibrillators to gather event data; using clocks connected to each defibrillator to associate time information with the event data gathered by the defibrillators; separating the clocks from the defibrillators; recovering in the main data recovery unit the event data and time information gathered by each defibrillator; and comparing the clocks with the clock in the main data recovery unit.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
85 words
A quality assurance method for a care delivery system comprising the following steps: dispatching a plurality of defibrillators to treat a plurality of patients; deploying the defibrillators to gather event data; using clocks connected to each defibrillator to associate time information with the event data gathered by the defibrillators; separating the clocks from the defibrillators; recovering in the main data recovery unit the event data and time information gathered by each defibrillator; and comparing the clocks with the clock in the main data recovery unit.
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