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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2009

Filed:

Jul. 16, 2003
Applicants:

Joseph L. Sullivan, Kirkland, WA (US);

Richard C. Nova, Kirkland, WA (US);

James M. Owen, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Joseph L. Sullivan, Kirkland, WA (US);

Richard C. Nova, Kirkland, WA (US);

James M. Owen, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:

Medtronic Physio-Control Corp., Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/39 (2006.01); A61B 19/00 (2006.01); A61H 31/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In general, the invention is directed to techniques for determining appropriate first aid and applying first aid that is appropriate. A first aid system receives patient status information from an input device or a sensor, and presents first aid information as a function of the received patient status information. The first aid system may be incorporated with an external defibrillator. The first aid system may acquire patient status information through an interaction with an operator, in which the first aid system asks the operator to supply patient status information. In one embodiment of the invention, the operator may supply patient status information by touching a diagram representing at least a portion of a human body.


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