Hewlett-packard Company

Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Richard James Conrad

Joseph R Fallon

Martin Mason

Kathleen R Meschisen

When configuring multiple patient monitors () in a healthcare environment, configuration is simplified and setup time is reduced by employing barcoded configuration information that is scanned into the monitors () using a barcode scanner (). A first monitor () is configured by selectively scanning one or more barcodes contained in a configuration booklet. Once the first monitor () is configured, its configuration information is stored and printed in barcoded format. The printed barcodes are then scanned into a second patient monitor (), without requiring the user to navigate the configuration barcode booklet a second time. Additionally, a patient's ID barcode is printed on vital signs records generated by the monitor, such as by a strip chart recorder or printer ().

Use of barcode menus to configure and set-up vital signs monitors

This invention relates to low transient switching apparatus, and more particularly to switching arrays of low transient switching circuits which are adapted for use to substantially continuously focus transducer channel outputs in an ultrasonic scanning system. A separate switching array is provided for each channel. Each array has a switching circuit with an output for each focusing delay line tap to which a signal on the channel may be applied. Each switching circuit provides a substantially constant D.C. current output regardless of the state of the circuit. Array outputs for each delay line tap are summed, and the summed outputs are applied as the input to the tap. The DC current inputs to all taps are maintained substantially equal, preferably at zero DC current.

Low transient switching system

A system for displaying a voltage wave wherein the wave and a delayed version of the wave are separately compared with a voltage ramp that is proportional to the position of an electron beam is changed between the point where the voltage ramp equals the voltage of the voltage wave and the point where the voltage ramp equals the voltage of the delayed version of the wave.

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Hamilton, MA, United States of America

Richard James Conrad