Patent ID: 8565882

Claim:
In a medical monitoring and treatment apparatus which allows a person access to a medical professional to monitor and treat the person from a remote site, an electronic adapter device configured to allow an electronic medical monitoring and treatment device, for monitoring and treatment of the person, to communicate with a local, first transmitting/receiving (“T/R”) device which, in turn, is adapted to electronically communicate with a remote, second transmitting/receiving T/R device used by the medical professional configured to monitor and control the treatment of the person, said adapter device including: (a) at least one T/R input port configured to receive, from said first T/R deice, a first local control signal, representing control information from said remote medical professional, adapted to control a treatment by said monitoring and treatment device; (b) at least one T/R output port configured to transmit, to said first T/R device, a first local data signal, representing medical data of the person received from said monitoring and treatment device; (c) a first data translation device connected to said input port operative to produce a second local control signal for controlling said monitoring and treatment device in response to said first local control signal received from said first T/R device; wherein said first data translation device changes an information format of said first local control signal to an information format compatible with that of said monitoring and treatment device; and (d) a second data translation device connected to said output port operative to produce said first local data signal for transmission to said first T/R device in response to a second local data signal representing said medical data of the person received from said monitoring and treatment device; wherein said second data translation device changes an information format of said second local data signal to an information format compatible with that of said first T/R device; wherein said medical data are transmitted from said monitoring and treatment device sequentially via said adapter and said first T/R device to said second T/R device for evaluation by said remote medical professional; wherein information from said medical professional for controlling the treatment of the person is transmitted from said second T/R device sequentially via said first T/R device and said adapter to said monitoring and treatment device; and wherein in response to said second local control signal representing the control information from said remote medical professional, said monitoring and treatment device treats said person; whereby said adapter is configured to allow control of said monitoring and treatment device from said remote second T/R device.