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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7356740 | Hazard mitigation in medical device Delivery of energy by a defibrillator or other medical device is inhibited when the processor or software that controls a module of the medical device operates abnormally. A windowed watchdog timer (WWDT) incorporated into one module of the medical device is used to... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7308304 | Cooperating defibrillators and external chest compression devices Devices, methods, and software implementing those methods for providing communicating external chest compression (ECC) devices and defibrillation (DF) devices, where the ECC and DF devices can be physically separate from each other. Both ECC and DF devices are able ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7289029 | Communication between emergency medical device and safety agency Techniques for initiating direct communication between an emergency medical device, such as an automated external defibrillator (AED) and a safety agency may include detecting an event and contacting the safety agency in response to the detected event and user autho... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7245964 | Annotating an audio recording during a medical emergency Techniques for managing recording of audio during a medical emergency are presented. An audio recorder may selectively record audio at selected time during the medical emergency, and generate correlation information to temporally correlate the recorded audio with th... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7231258 | Communicating medical event information In general, the invention provides techniques for wireless communication of medical event information between medical devices that treat a particular patient. In general, medical event information describes the condition and treatment of a patient. A medical device ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7179279 | Rapid induction of mild hypothermia In general, the disclosure presents techniques for rapidly cooling the body of a patient. A cooling garment is placed in contact with the body of the patient. Spacers within the cooling garment create a space between at least a portion of the cooling garment and the... | 02/20/2007 |
| 6754526 | Defibrillator with a multiple-mode interface The present invention is directed to a defibrillator having both a manual and an AED mode with corresponding user commands for both modes. The defibrillator includes a door which conceals manual mode commands, such that opening of the door puts the defibrillator in ... | 06/22/2004 |
