Patent ID: 9710221
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: A61B,G06F,G16H,G16Z,H04R

Claim:
1. A device that alerts medical operating room personnel and facilitates surgical team communication during intraoperative critical events, including intraoperative hypoxemic and intraoperative hypotensive events, by controlling volume of a music source in a surgical operating room in response to data generated by existing anesthesia monitoring equipment in the surgical operating room, the device comprising: a first input to be coupled to the anesthesia monitoring equipment and structured to receive an anesthesia monitoring signal from the anesthesia monitoring equipment, the anesthesia monitoring signal consisting of data pertaining to intraoperative oxygenation and intraoperative perfusion of a patient; an output to be coupled to the surgical operating room music source; and a signal processor coupled to the first input and to the output and structured to receive the anesthesia monitoring signal and to generate a music volume control signal on the output to adjust the volume of the surgical operating room music source in response to the anesthesia monitoring signal in which the volume is reduced but not muted in response to the anesthesia monitoring signal being in a first range and muting the volume of the music source in response to the anesthesia monitoring signal being within a second range to alert the surgical team in the surgical operating room and facilitate surgical team communication during the intraoperative hypoxemic or hypotensive critical events.