US 11,707,250 B2
Fault monitoring apparatus and method for operating a medical device
Swen Campagna, Engelthal (DE); Thorsten Speckner, Erlangen (DE); Wolfgang Gösswein, Effeltrich (DE); Carsten Prinz, Baiersdorf (DE); Stephan Churt, Hersbruck (DE); and Bernd Erbe, Lauf a.d. Pegnitz (DE)
Assigned to Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen (DE)
Filed by Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen (DE)
Filed on Oct. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/512,079.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 214 736.1 (DE), filed on Nov. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0160324 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 6/586 (2013.01) [A61B 5/055 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating a medical device, the method comprising:
receiving, by a fault monitoring apparatus, an item of status information from the medical device and storing the item of status information in a system state of a memory of the fault monitoring apparatus, wherein the fault monitoring apparatus is connected to the medical device via a signal connection;
comparing, by the fault monitoring apparatus, the stored system state with a predetermined target state, wherein the predetermined target state indicates at least one function test that must be successfully executed at a predetermined point in time in order to provide a reliable function of the medical device;
releasing at least one function of the medical device via the signal connection when the comparing has confirmed that the stored system state has successfully executed the at least one function test indicated by the predetermined target state; and
operating the at least one released function of the medical device.