MEDICAL DEVICE WITH LACK-OF-READINESS ALARM

摘要

A medical device for caring for a patient includes a patient utility for measuring a patient parameter or administering a therapy to the patient and an alarm system that has a receiver to accept status information about the medical device. A use detector of the alarm system is structured to determine when the medical device is being prepared for use and a status detector of the alarm system is adapted to determine from the status information that the medical device is in a ready state. The alarm system further includes an alarm that is activated when the medical device is both being prepared for use and not in the ready state. This description also includes methods of generating an alarm when the medical device is both being prepared for use and not in the ready state.

主权项

1. A method for alerting a user of a medical device to a state of readiness of the medical device, the method comprising:
sensing that the medical device is about to be used; assessing a value for a readiness state of the medical device; and generating an alarm when the medical device is about to be used and the assessed readiness state value is below a threshold level.