Surgery – Truss – Pad
Patent
1995-08-14
1998-03-24
Bahr, Jennifer
Surgery
Truss
Pad
A61B 500
Patent
active
057301247
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a medical measurement apparatus for allowing not only medical experts but also patients, pregnant women and their attendants or helpers to readily perform medical measurement in medical institutions or elsewhere (e.g., at home). More particularly, the invention relates to a medical measurement apparatus which permits health-care or medical experts such as doctors to identify the subject such as a patient or a pregnant woman and to set appropriate comments about that subject with respect to relevant measuring items, to the criteria for judgment and to the measured results, the comments being utilized by the subject depending on the measured results.
The medical measurement apparatus of this invention allows medical measurement to be made by patients or pregnant women themselves as well as by their attendants or helpers. As a matter of convenience, the specification hereunder will refer to the patient, pregnant woman, etc. from whom to collect specimens as "the subject," and the person operating the inventive medical measurement apparatus for measuring the collected specimens as "the operator." The subject and the operator may or may not be the same person.
BACKGROUND ART
A large number of medical measurement systems and apparatuses have been developed for easy use by patients, pregnant women or their attendants carrying out various kinds of medical measurement on their own. The measurements include such items as blood pressure, urine sugar level, urine protein and occult blood, as well as pregnancy tests and observation of mothers' conditions.
Many of the conventional systems and apparatuses utilize test liquids and test paper. In operation, such testing agents require visually inspecting the change in color tone dependent of the amount of the target analyte detected in specimens, whereby the measurements are determined.
Recent years have seen the advent of many other apparatuses that convert an optically measured color tone change into electrical signals or turn the target analyte amount (i.e., concentration) in the specimen into electrical signals. The signals thus obtained are used as the basis for computing measurements that are displayed numerically and/or graphically on a display unit (see Japanese Patents Laid-Open Nos. Sho 61-83944, Sho 63-61157, etc.).
Some medical measurement systems performing electrical measurement store measured results in the past on a number of occasions and allow them to be retrieved later and displayed as needed to make more accurate medical measurements and diagnosis. Other systems comprise a mechanism that generates an alarm if the measuring conditions such as temperature and the target analyte concentration in the specimen are not appropriate (see Japanese Patents Laid-Open Nos. Sho 63-157040, Sho 61-47565, etc.).
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Hei 5-296851 discloses a body temperature data management system comprising a clinical thermometer equipped with an LED. When the LED on the clinical thermometer blinks to generate digital signals representing body temperature measurements of the subject on a time series basis, the system properly reads the optical signals to have the body temperature data transferred thereto in a cord-free environment. The body temperature data is stored along with ID information on the subject and the time stamps of the measurement, to be displayed later graphically or otherwise on a display unit.
The majority of the conventional medical measurement systems and apparatuses have their measuring items fixedly determined beforehand, and numerically display such diverse measurements as urine sugar level and blood pressure. The judgment on the measured results is entrusted to the operator (i.e., subject) who may have no specialized knowledge of the field in question.
Some systems have the ability to judge and indicate that a particular measurement is excessively high or low (too large, too small, etc.) relative to the relevant standard range (see Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Sho 61-73058). However,
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Bahr Jennifer
Mochida Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.
Yarnell Bryan K.
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