System for monitoring physiological characteristics

摘要

Apparatuses and methods for medical monitoring physiological characteristic values such as blood glucose levels for the treatment of diabetes, are presented. The apparatuses and methods provide advanced alarm and reminder functions, as well as advanced data presentation tools to further facilitate convenient and efficient management of various physiological conditions. For example, an alarm repeat delay can be used to prevent redundant alarms for a specified period and an alarm snooze function can be used to prevent alarms generally for a specified period.

主权项

1. A physiological characteristic monitor, comprising:
a sensor input capable of receiving a signal from a sensor, the signal being based on a sensed physiological characteristic value of a user; and a processor for operating an alarm based on:
user input from an input device; andthe signal received from the sensor; wherein:
operating the alarm comprises setting parameters of the alarm based on the user input from the input device;the alarm indicates a high limit alarm condition when the sensed physiological characteristic value exceeds a set high limit range and a low limit alarm condition when the sensed physiological characteristic value exceeds a set low limit range; andsubsequent alarms are inhibited during a high limit alarm repeat delay period after the alarm indicates a high limit alarm condition and a low limit alarm repeat delay period after the alarm indicates a low limit alarm condition;wherein the high limit alarm repeat delay period is different from the low limit alarm repeat delay period.