Portable electronic instrument and method

Details Portable electronic instrument and method Portable electronic instrument and method

1987-11-06

1993-01-26

Shay, David M.

Surgery

Truss

Pad

A61B 502

Patent

active

051815214

ABSTRACT:
An electronic thermometer and a method for sensing, indicating and recording temperatures of one or more living beings such as patients in a hospital. In a preferred form, the instrument is portable and contains on-board means for selectively reproducing signals defining past temperatures made of an individual and applying same to a visual display, a printer and/or an external memory such as associated with a master or storage computer for a medical facility or hospital. The playback control includes means such as a keyboard or series of switches, for reproducing just those temperature signals which were generated when a select person's temperature was taken over a select period of time to the exclusion of other signals recorded in the instrument's memory. Auxilliary subsystems may include a microphone and recorder of speech signals indicative of the identity of the person whose temperature is measured, a light pen or other means for generating and recording signals indicative of the identity of the persons whose temperatures are sensed, a speaker for generating sounds of synthetic or recorded speech indicative of temperatures taken and the persons whose temperatures are taken, time and date signal generating and indicating means, etc. The instrument also includes inputs for transducers for sensing other variables such as heartbeat and electronic circuitry for receiving signals from such sensors and calculating one or more physiological variables to be recorded and displayed.

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