Patent ID: 8081071

Claim:
A system for monitoring a portable emergency medical device, comprising; a portable emergency medical device including a broadcast transmitter, the broadcast transmitter capable of broadcasting a condition information stream; device programmable circuitry programmed with a self-diagnostic test, having programming to execute the self-diagnostic test, to generate the condition information stream containing a data payload based on the executed self-diagnostic test containing status information, and to transmit the condition information stream; and a monitor including a broadcast receiver, the receiver capable of receiving from the broadcast transmitter the condition information stream, monitor programmable circuitry having programming to analyze the information in the condition information stream and to determine if the status information therein warrants a sensory alert or not, and a sensory alert that may be activated by the programming of the monitor programmable circuitry wherein the system includes two monitors and the programming in each monitor allows each monitor to receive and analyze the condition information stream from the same portable emergency medical device, and wherein the system includes two portable emergency medical devices and three monitors, and the first monitor receives and analyzes condition information streams from both portable emergency medical devices, the second monitor receives and analyzes a condition information stream only from one portable emergency medical device and the third monitor receives and analyzes a condition information, stream only from the other portable emergency medical device.