Patent ID: 9642530
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. An apparatus for monitoring of a body function and/or a body property of a patient comprising: a sensor which determines measurement values with regard to the body function and/or the body property, a detector unit for detecting a critical condition of the respective body function and/or body property based on the measurement values, an alert unit for providing alert information to the patient in case a critical condition is detected optically and/or acoustically, an acknowledgement unit for acknowledging the critical condition, and a transmitter for transmitting, from the apparatus to an emergency service provider, information with regard to the corresponding body function and/or body property, a clock for determining a time that has elapsed since a detection of the critical condition by the detector unit, wherein the transmitted information includes an emergency signal and/or a position information, and wherein the transmitter is only activatable responsive to a determination that both (i) the time determined by the clock to have elapsed since the detection of the critical condition exceeds a predefined time period, and (iii) the acknowledgement unit has not been operated since the detection of the critical condition.