Patent ID: 6610010
Filing Date: 2003-08-26
Classification: A61B,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
A portable telemedicine device used in prehospital, preliminary procedures and treatments comprising:a data processing unit; measurement means for obtaining measurement data from a patient; presentation means; entry means for manual input of information data; communication equipment for bidirectional communication with at least one central unit for transmitting information data to the central unit and for receiving information data from the central unit, said information data representing results from diagnoses, suggested care and previously stored data on a patient; a predetermined number of the data processing unit, the measurement means, the presentation means, the entry means, and the communication equipment being integrated into a portable unit; and means arranged for assigning different priorities to different types of transmitted information data, upon transmission of the information data to the central unit for ensuring that information data having a highest priority in a predetermined situation is transmitted first.