Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Cardiovascular
Patent
1998-03-11
2000-03-07
Getzow, Scott M.
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Cardiovascular
A61B 5021
Patent
active
060352302
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a biological signal monitoring system, and more particularly, to a real-time biological signal monitoring system using a radio communication network in which biological signal data is checked using a portable biological signal hold apparatus, the checked data is transmitted to a monitoring center via an aerial radio communication network when it is judged as abnormality, and then the monitoring center transmits diagnosis and prescription information to the biological signal hold apparatus in response thereto.
BACKGROUND ART
A technique of measuring biological signals at a remote distance is recently under development according to the technological advancement of a medical science. A recent biological signal remote measuring method which is widely used is an electrocardiogram transmission method. There are monitors for a Holter electrocardiogram, a resting electrocardiogram and a stress electrocardiogram as electrocardiogram monitoring apparatuses used for diagnosing heart disease and the state of the heart.
Taking an electrocardiogram as an example, problems of conventional art will be briefly described below. Generally, an electrocardiograph can observe the waveforms of an electrocardiogram for a short time. However, the waveforms of an electrocardiogram should be continuously recorded for a long time and the recorded data should be analyzed to observe heart abnormality such as an irregular pulse which is generated intermittently. For this purpose, a Holter electrocardiogram apparatus has been developed. Recently, it is a tendency that the Holter electrocardiogram apparatus is put on for about one day to record detected electrocardiogram data on a cassette tape or a semiconductor storage unit for more than 24 hours and to analyze the recorded data. However, it takes much time to analyze the recorded data, and particularly much more time to analyze a more technological analysis.
For this reason, the heart disease of a patient does not measured in real-time. As a result, when a patient is in an emergency situation, an emergency treatment cannot be taken immediately. Also, since a terminal of the Holter electrocardiogram apparatus stores data corresponding to the quantity of more than 24 hours, an expensive storage unit such as a memory card is needed and a separate connection apparatus is needed to transmit the data at high speed. As a result, an equipment cost rises.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
To solve the above problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide a real-time biological signal monitoring system using a radio communication network to enable diagnosis and prevention with respect to the disease of a patient in which a biological signal hold apparatus is put on by a patent and then an electrocardiogram or various kinds of biological signal data are continuously checked to transmit the checked data to a biological signal monitoring server apparatus in a hospital on a real-time basis via a radio communication network only when it is judged as an abnormality condition, within the boundary where an activity area of the patient is not limited, and a biological signal monitoring center of the hospital transmits diagnosis and prescription to the biological signal hold apparatus on a real-time basis.
To accomplish the above object of the present invention, there is provided a biological signal monitoring system using a radio communication network comprising: patient for measuring biological signal data, judging whether or not the measured biological signal data indicates an abnormality, and transmitting the biological signal data indicating the abnormality via an aerial radio communication network whenever it is judged as an abnormal state; biological signal data with which an abnormality is recognized from the biological signal hold apparatus via the aerial radio communication network and transmitting a resultant prescription message to the biological signal hold apparatus; and data transmitted from the biological signal hold apparatus to
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Kang Dong-Joo
Lee Dong-Wha
Getzow Scott M.
Medison Co., Ltd
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