42 results about "Hospital use" patented technology

A method of declaring an emergency condition in a wireless sensor network, the wireless sensor network comprising a plurality of devices (10, 11, 12) including sensors (11) arranged for monitoring at least one living body or other entity, the method comprising steps of: sensing a value of parameter related to the living body by one of the sensors (11); wirelessly transmitting information by said sensor to another device (10) in the network; determining existence or non-existence of an emergency condition affecting said living body by using said sensed value or said transmitted information; and declaring existence or non-existence of the emergency condition to at least one other device (e.g. 10) in the network. The determining step may be carried out in any of the sensor (11), a coordinator (10) of the wireless sensor network, or a central monitor (12) in communication with the coordinator. The declaring step may be performed by setting a frame control field of a frame-based wireless sensor network to a value predefined as denoting an emergency frame. An acknowledgement frame may be used by the recipient to acknowledge receipt of the emergency declaration, after which an emergency procedure is followed. The emergency procedure can involve, for example, increasing the bandwidth allocated to the sensor so as to ensure reliability of subsequent information from the sensor. The method may be applied, for example, to monitoring of patients in a hospital using MBANs operating in accordance with IEEE 802.15.6.

A method of operating a wireless sensor network having a plurality of network devices (11E, 13) including sensors for monitoring a plurality of parameters, and a coordinator (10) for communicating with the network devices either directly in a star protocol or indirectly in a peer-to- peer protocol, the method comprising: arranging the coordinator (10) for communication over a low-priority link with at least a subset of said network devices; gathering sensor data by sensors of the network devices and transferring the data to the coordinator; detecting existence of an emergency state with respect to at least one of the network devices (11E); establishing a high-priority link with said at least one of the devices (11E) in the emergency state, said high-priority link having higher priority for network resources than said low-priority link; and where said one device is acting as a relay for low-priority links with other devices (13), maintaining, modifying or dropping those low-priority links in dependence upon whether or not the other devices are in emergency, a level of congestion or QoS of the high-priority link, and / or the electrical power available to said one (11E) of the devices. The method may be applied, for example, to monitoring of patients in a hospital using MBANs operating in accordance with IEEE 802.15.6.

A method of allocating resources in a wireless sensor network, the network having functions including medical monitoring of a patient using multiple network devices having sensors, the method including steps of sensing, by a network device in the network, a life parameter of the patient, recognizing the existence of an emergency condition with respect to the parameter, the network device sending a request for streaming towards a coordinator of the network, the coordinator receiving (S 12) the request along with any other requests from other devices in the network, and the coordinator granting (S 14, S 16) each the request by scheduling one of a streaming allocation with highest priority for a network device which is in an emergency condition, a streaming allocation of medium priority for a network device sensing a life parameter which is not in an emergency condition, and a streaming allocation of lowest priority for a network device which is not sensing any life parameter of the patient and which is not in an emergency condition The emergency condition may be defined with respect to one or more medical parameters of the patient The method may be applied, for example, to monitoring of patients in a hospital using MBANs operating in accordance with IEEE 802. 15. 6.

For use in automobile vehicles in general, for urban or rural use, in land, water or air vehicles, as well as aircraft, trains and watercraft propelled by combustion engines, electric energy, hybrid vehicles, hydrogen vehicles or vehicles using any other technology or fuel, and also capable of being used in any equipment with a combustion engine, such as stationary generators or turbines for generating energy, large-volume water pumps and agricultural machinery, as well as aircraft propelled by turbojet, turbofan, turboprop, turbo propellers and piston engines, inter alia, with variants for domestic, commercial, industrial and hospital use, inter alia, by addition of a power supply (transformer) to the power inlet and if required its adaptation to a cabinet having a suitable design.

Novel methods for delivering a drug to hospital patients for short-term in-hospital use while minimizing long-term use of the drug. Embodiments are provided in which hospitals are identified which may be eligible to treat patients, for example, perform certain types of surgery, and which have measures in place to limit use of the drug to short-term use. The identified hospitals are preferably registered in a storage medium, including computer readable storage media, and may be authorized to receive the shipments of the drug. The received drug may then be dispensed to the patient.

The invention discloses a daily drinking water management network system for crowds looked after. The daily drinking water management network system comprises a plurality of intelligent cups, a plurality of intelligent wristwatches and an embedded management platform; the embedded management platform records one-shot drinking water volumes of the crowds looked after and using the intelligent cups and sends drinking water set value information, obtained through scientific calculation, of each wearer to the corresponding intelligent cup. When the drinking water volumes of the crowds looked after are insufficient, voice or vibration reminding is conducted through the intelligent wristwatches, and the daily drinking water management network system is suitable for families, sanatoriums and hospitals. The embedded management platform, the intelligent cups and the intelligent wristwatches are in communication through a wireless sensor network. In addition, the daily drinking water management network system can be used for managing and reminding of everyday medicine taking or rehabilitation exercise of the crowds looked after and is beneficial for improving living quality of the crowds looked after and relieving workloads of family members and other care workers.