Physio-control, Inc.

Stryker Corporation

The UAB Research Foundation (The University of Alabama at Birmingham)

West Affum Holdings Corp.

West Affum Holdings Dac

Jolife Ab

Tyson G Taylor

Fred William Chapman

Robert G Walker

Mitchell Allen Smith

Blaine Krusor

Daniel W Piraino

David J Linville

Dennis M Skelton

Anders Nilsson

Douglas Keith Medema

Ronald Eugene Stickney

Benjamin J Danziger

Clinton T Siedenburg

William Edward Crone

Gary DeBardi

Bjarne Madsen Härdig

Sara Lindroth

Marcus Ehrstedt

Anders Jeppsson

Alexander Esibov

Jonas Lagerstrom

Alex Esibov

Jil Cruz

Steven Barry Duke

Shardul Varma

Steven Heightman

Gregory T Kavounas

Gregory P Walcott

Erik Von Schenck

Ryan William Apperson

Neal Stanley Clark

Steven B Duke

Mark Rutzer

Thomas Falk

Cathlene Buchanan

Fredrik Arnwald

Robert P Marx, Jr

Dale R Beuning

David B Stewart

Steven Chester

Doan Dinh

Per Axelsson

Roderick Briscoe

Alexey Titov

Eric Sandrup

Thangeswaran Natarajan

Tobias Svahn

Wiktor Kocula

Lars Anders Jörgen Segerstein

Jonas Lagerström

Joseph L Sullivan

An active backboard that can assist with adjusting a patient on the backboard to ensure that the backboard is correctly aligned for a compression mechanism of an upper portion of a mechanical cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) device to perform compressions. The active backboard can also include multiple layers that can slide or move relative to each other to move the patient relative to the backboard. The active backboard can include roller bars, a wheel, and/or projections to assist with moving a patient relative to the backboard.

Mechanical CPR device with active backboard

Examples of the disclosure are directed to adjustable back plates or backboards for a mechanical compression device to accommodate different patient sizes and/or for ease of storage. Examples of the disclosure includes back plates that can be folded, pieced together, or otherwise have a variable distance between connectors that attach to legs of a chest compression device. Examples also include back plates which may have two sides, such as an adult patient side and a pediatric patient side, to accommodate different patient sizes.

Adjustable back plate for mechanical compression device

An example method is performed by a computing device executing instructions stored in data storage, and includes receiving physiologic monitoring data from a plurality of sensors coupled to a patient, receiving information indicating a measurement of patient motion during the patient care event, determining whether the measurement of patient motion is above a threshold, based on determining whether the measurement of patient motion is above the threshold, generating, for the physiologic monitoring data, a respective quality indicator, analyzing, by the computing device, (i) a combination of the physiologic monitoring data from the plurality of sensors and (ii) the respective quality indicator for the physiologic monitoring data to generate a response dependent upon the combination of the physiologic monitoring data as weighted by the respective quality indicator, and based on analyzing, outputting caregiver feedback by the computing device according to the response.

Methods and systems for patient parameter fusion and feedback

Defibrillators with enhanced functionality during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) periods are described. The enhancements include predicting a length of a charging period of a capacitor of the medical device so that capacitor is shock charged at the end of the CPR period. The enhancements also include re-assessing an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal for continued presence of a shockable rhythm during the CPR period and before administration of a defibrillation shock. Together the enhancements can improve the timing and recommended administration of defibrillation therapy.

Defibrillators with enhanced functionality during cardiopulmonary resuscitation periods

Systems, devices, and methods provide up-to-date defibrillation shock recommendations. In an example method, multiple segments of an electrocardiogram (ECG) of an individual are detected from an individual receiving chest compressions. The multiple segments are evaluated to determine whether the individual is exhibiting a shockable heart rhythm. A medical device outputs a recommendation indicating whether a defibrillation shock is advised based on the most recent determination of the individual's heart rhythm. For example, the medical device outputs an up-to-date recommendation on-demand in response to an input signal from a user. In some examples, the medical device updates the recommendation based on ongoing analysis of the ECG.

Up-to-date defibrillation recommendations based on continuous ECG analysis during cardiopulmonary resuscitation

An accessory for a medical device, including an input configured to receive a signal from a signal source and one or more processors configured to: analyze the signal from the signal source, and determine one or more deterministic signals based on the analysis of the signal, the one or more deterministic signals configured to elicit a defined response from the medical device. The accessory also includes an output configured to transmit the one or more deterministic signals to the medical device. The accessory may be, for example, a device located in a therapy path of the medical device, a removable circuit board connected to the medical device, or connected to or a part of the signal source.

Accessory for analyzing patient signals during cardiopulmonary resuscitation

The present disclosure includes various examples for cooling electronics within a medical device while preventing or reducing the risk of an interior of the medical device being contaminated with a pathogen. The present disclosure includes a medical device having an air deflector to deflect potentially contaminated air from infecting a patient or caregiver. The present disclosure also includes medical devices with disinfectant devices installed to disinfect air either before entering the medical device or before exiting the device. Other examples of the present disclosure include medical devices that are sealed from outside air and fluids, and which may include a cooling device on an exterior surface which may be cleaned and/or removed after each use.

Preventing infections in non-sterile air-circulating medical devices

Various systems, methods, and devices related to modifying views of a multi-lead electrocardiogram (ECG), as well as identifying notations associated with the multi-lead ECG, are described. An example method includes displaying graphical elements in a first arrangement. The graphical elements respectively depict electrical signals indicative of an electrical activity of a heart. The example method further includes detecting a signal indicative of a display selection, and, based on the display selection, rearranging the graphical elements from the first arrangement to a second arrangement.

Medical device with modifiable view of an electrocardiogram

A prehospital telemedicine system comprises a physiologic monitor; an electronic patient care reporting system (ePCR) system; and a point-of-care blood analyzer communicatively coupled to the physiologic monitor and the ePCR system. The point-of-care blood analyzer is configured to perform an analysis of a blood sample based on an indication of a need for a specific blood analysis provided by one of the physiologic monitor and the ePCR system, and to automatically transmit a result of the analysis to a remote data receiving system. The indication of a need for a specific blood analysis may be based upon any one of the following: vital signs data obtained for a patient by the physiologic monitor; and/or current documentation or past medical history captured on or available through the ePCR system.

Integration of a point-of-care blood analyzer into a prehospital telemedicine system

An example method is performed by a current defibrillator and includes determining that a memory embedded within a therapy cable coupled to the current defibrillator stores data indicative of a previous shock delivered to a patient, the previous being delivered using a previous defibrillator. The method also includes obtaining the data indicative of the previous shock, and setting an energy level for a subsequent shock based on the data indicative of the previous shock. The method further includes delivering the subsequent shock to the patient at the energy level for the subsequent shock.

Transfer of cardiac arrest data between defibrillators

An external defibrillator system is configured with at least two different algorithms for determining the duration of a shock administered to a patient being treated and selects the algorithm based on one or more patient parameters such as, for example, the patient's TTI. The patient's TTI can be measured prior to or while the shock is being administered to the patient. The shock can be, for example, a multiphasic defibrillation or a multiphasic cardioversion shock. The charge voltage of the system's energy storage device can additionally be varied depending on the one or more patient parameters. For example, the system may charge the energy storage device so that the charge voltage is higher or lower than a nominal charge voltage responsive to the patient's TTI is higher or lower compared to an average TTI, respectively.

Defibrillation waveforms for a wearable cardiac defibrillator

A defibrillation system for the administration of a dual sequential defibrillation and/or simultaneous defibrillation therapy. A first defibrillation device is inductively coupled to a second defibrillation device. An energy delivery of the first defibrillation device generating, or causing to be generated, an artifact that is received by the second defibrillation device. The artifact causing a sync mode, or sync mode circuitry, of the second defibrillation device to administer a second energy delivery. The second energy delivery can be delayed relative to the energy delivery by the first defibrillation device.

System for multiple defibrillation therapies

A defibrillation device for administering an electrotherapy, such as a dual-sequential defibrillation (DSD) electrotherapy. The defibrillation device can include a defibrillation therapy module, a physiological parameter module and a control module. The defibrillation therapy module can output one or more energies and the physiological parameter module can receive one or more physiological parameters, including electrocardiogram (ECG) data. The control module can analyze the physiological parameters to determine an indication for the administration of an electrotherapy and can determine a DSD electrotherapy. The DSD electrotherapy can be based at least in part on the physiological parameters, the indication for the administration of an electrotherapy or a review of the ECG data.

Systems and methods for double sequential defibrillation

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Tyson G Taylor