Portable rapid vital sign apparatus and method

摘要

A portable, cuffless instrument and system for providing rapid measurements of vital signs of a patient undergoing trauma from illness or injury comprising a portable instrument connectable via contact sensors to the patient to produce a vital sign data set including blood pressure, pulse, blood oxygen saturation, and body temperature. The instrument preferably includes wireless communication capability in a network and system including a remote server, database, and processing capability to provide access to electronic medical records, to analyze the vital signs data, report preliminary diagnoses to a care giver, including listing chronologically vital sign data for trends.

主权项

1. A portable instrument for providing rapid measurements of vital signs, comprising:
a handheld, cuffless device operable during brief touch contact with one hand of a patient undergoing emergency health evaluation to produce a vital sign data set for the patient; an assembly of touch contact sensors in the device for measuring and outputting measurement values for blood pressure, pulse, blood oxygen saturation, and body temperature; a processor in the device operable under programmed control to receive and process the measurement values output by the sensors and produce the vital signs data set; a display controlled by the processor for reading out numerical values of the vital sign data set; and a wireless interface coupled to the processor for transmitting the vital sign data set to an electronic medical record in a remote database.