Gambro Lundia Ab

Niklas Mebius

Mikael Lindhult

Camilla Johannesson

The disclosure relates to the field of medical devices, and more specifically to techniques for remotely controlling medical devices. According to a first aspect, the disclosure relates to a method of operating a medical device to enable a remote system to remotely control the medical device, wherein the medical device comprises one or more actuatorsarranged to control a medical procedure. The medical deviceis controlled by a software system including one or more medical processes involved in the operation of the medical device during the medical procedure and a remote-control process. The method comprises handing over Sownership of control of the one or more actuatorsfrom the one or more medical processes to the remote-control process, upon at least one first pre-determined criteria being fulfilled S, and sending S, by the remote-control process, in response to ownership of control of the one or more actuators being handed over S, an activate confirmation, to the remote system and/or to a user interface of the medical device. The activate confirmation is indicating that remote-control of the one or more actuators is active.

Medical device and method for remote-control of a medical device

A medical device comprises a software (SW) system for execution by processor(s). The SW system defines a plurality of subsystems, including a primary subsystem and one or more secondary subsystems, and each subsystem comprises SW applications involved in the operation of the medical device during a medical procedure. A deterministic and distributed startup of the SW system is enabled by separating the startup procedure into a preparation for startup on a subsystem level, by use of two different notifications, and a preparation for startup on a system level, in which the primary subsystem coordinates startup of the subsystems. The method comprises: initiating () each SW application; providing (), by each SW application in the respective secondary subsystem when ready for startup, an 'application ready' notification; providing (), by the respective secondary subsystem when all of its SW applications have provided the “application ready” notification, a “subsystem ready” notification; and coordinating (), by the primary subsystem upon receiving the “subsystem ready” notification, startup of the subsystems.

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Niklas Mebius