Zoll Medical Corporation

Henry Clay Constantine, Iii

Ziad F Elghazzawi

Ian B Durrant

A medical equipment management system is described that includes a database including status and software information for medical equipment, a user interface configured to display at least one summary level indicator comprising a summary level status indicator for at least one group of the medical equipment, wherein the group of medical equipment corresponds to a user-defined geographic region, and a computer located remotely from the medical equipment and communicatively coupled to the user interface and the database, the computer configured to establish a communicative connection with the medical equipment, receive status updates from the medical equipment, update the status information in the database based on the status updates, receive a request to access the database, and provide the updated status information for the group of medical equipment to the user interface, wherein the summary level status indicator at the user interface is based on the updated status information.

Medical equipment servicing

A medical device management system includes a plurality of medical devices associated with a common administrator and comprising at least one defibrillator/monitor, wherein the plurality of medical devices comprise previously stored configuration information and a central server comprising a configuration information database and configured to communicatively couple to the plurality of medical devices via a long-range wireless connection, push administrator-selected configuration information updates to the plurality of medical devices associated with the common administrator, wherein the plurality of medical devices are configured to communicatively couple with the central server via the long-range wireless connection, receive the pushed administrator-selected configuration information, and update the previously stored configuration information according to the pushed administrator-selected configuration information.

Medical device configuration management

A system for medical equipment servicing includes a computing device for medical equipment management configured to communicatively couple to a plurality of remotely located portable medical devices and one or more automated external defibrillators (AEDs), each AED including defibrillation electrodes, a battery, a processor, a memory comprising a set of configurations, and associated circuitry, and a communication interface coupled to the processor and configured to communicatively couple to the computing device via a wireless or cellular network, establish a cellular or WiFi connection with the computing device, and receive at least one configuration update from the computing device via the cellular or WiFi connection, the processor being configured to download and install the at least one configuration update.

An example of a medical device management system is described that includes a central server configured to remotely manage protocol updates according to medical device servicing groupings and a protocol database and that includes a plurality of medical devices comprising rescue scene devices and one or more of defibrillators and defibrillator/monitors. The rescue scene devices include at least one of a ventilation unit including an airflow sensor and a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) device configured to identify a vertical displacement of a patient's chest caused by CPR compressions. The plurality of medical devices is associated with a respective medical device servicing group and is configured to communicatively couple with the central server, download a new or updated protocol associated with the respective medical device servicing group from the protocol database, and modify a medical device configuration according to the downloaded new or updated protocol.

A medical equipment management system is described. The medical equipment management system includes a database including software for a plurality of external defibrillators, the software including at least one of new software and updated software and a computer located remotely from the plurality of external defibrillators and configured to be communicatively coupled to the plurality of external defibrillators and to receive a login request from a administrator, based on the login request, determine, from amongst the plurality of external defibrillators in the database, a set of external defibrillators associated with the administrator, determine whether the software stored in the database is relevant to the set of external defibrillators associated with the administrator, and send the relevant software to the set of external defibrillators associated with the administrator.

Systems and techniques for configuring external defibrillators are described herein. A medical device management system is described that includes a plurality of external defibrillators associated with a common owner, the plurality of external defibrillators including a previously stored protocol configuration, and a configuration information database that includes owner-selected protocol configuration settings, wherein the plurality of external defibrillators associated with the common owner are configured to be communicatively connected by a wireless connection to a central server comprising the configuration information database, and to send a request for the owner-selected protocol configuration settings to the central server, receive the owner-selected protocol configuration settings, and update the previously stored protocol configuration based on the received owner-selected protocol configuration settings.

Automated external defibrillator configuration

Systems and techniques for centralized management and servicing of medical equipment such as automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are described herein. A medical equipment management system is described that includes a database that includes status information for a plurality of AEDs, wherein the status information includes a functional status for one or more of the plurality of AEDs, and a computer configured to receive status updates from the plurality of AEDs, update the status information in the database with the status updates, receive a request to access the status information for the plurality of AEDs, and send the status information for the plurality of AEDs, wherein the status information for the plurality of AEDs is grouped based on user-defined geographic regions in which the plurality of AEDs is located and indicates one or more sites associated with the plurality of AEDs.

Systems and techniques for receiving status updates from multiple automated external defibrillators, receiving, from a user, a request to access status information, and sending, to the user, summary level status information for at least some of the multiple automated external defibrillators, the summary level status information being grouped based on a measure of geographic proximity of the multiple automated external defibrillators.

A system including a chest compression sensor configured to detect at least one parameter corresponding to chest compressions of a subject and an electrocardiogram signal simulator configured to generate a simulated electrocardiogram signal and combine and/or modify the simulated electrocardiogram signal with an output of the chest compression sensor to produce a simulated electrocardiogram signal with a CPR artifact.

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Henry Clay Constantine, Iii