Smiths Medical Pm, Inc.

Bci, Inc.

Frank Katarow

Eugene Palatnik

A finger oximeter has fitted thereto a RF transmitter circuit so that the measured SpO , and other physical parameters from a patient, may be transmitted telecommunicatively to a monitor device remotely located from the finger oximeter. The RF transmitter circuit is mounted on a PC board that is provided in the housing of the finger oximeter, and works in cooperation with the oximetry circuit that is also mounted on a PC board in the housing of the finger oximeter. The two PC boards may be combined as one. To receive the RF signal, a RF receiver is provided to the remote monitor device, which also includes a processing circuit for processing the incoming RF signal, and a converter circuit for converting the processed digital signal into an analog signal for display at the remote monitor device. In place of a one-way RF link, the finger oximeter may be equipped with a RF transceiver circuit that is capable of transmitting as well as receiving RF signals from the remote monitor device, which likewise is fitted with a RF transceiver circuit. The finger oximeter could be activated by the patient manually, by means of a switch provided at the housing, or remotely by means of a signal provided from the remote monitor device. The finger oximeter may or may not include a display.

Finger oximeter with remote telecommunications capabilities and system therefor

Incorporated to a finger grip device are an oximeter that measures the SpO of the patient and a fingerprint sensor for sensing the fingerprint of the finger from which the SpO is measured. The sensed fingerprint is used to identify the patient. By thus establishing the identity of the patient, the measured SpO could readily be associated with the patient and appropriately displayed and stored, either at the patient site or remotely. The monitored data could also be readily associated with records of the patient and other physiological could data of the patient that may have been prestored in the controller to which the finger grip device is connected, or in a memory at a remote location. Mistakes in patient identification and the correspondence of wrong patient data to patients are thereby substantially reduced if not eliminated.

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Pewaukee, WI, United States of America

Frank Katarow