US 12,127,969 B2
Thermal system with graphical user interface
Gregory S. Taylor, Kalamazoo, MI (US); Marco Constant, Portage, MI (US); and Christopher John Hopper, Kalamazoo, MI (US)
Assigned to Stryker Corporation, Portage, MI (US)
Filed by Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US)
Filed on Dec. 17, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/222,004.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/610,362, filed on Dec. 26, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2019/0192339 A1, Jun. 27, 2019
Int. Cl. A61F 7/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2022.01); G06F 3/0488 (2022.01)
CPC A61F 7/0085 (2013.01) [A61B 5/01 (2013.01); A61B 5/4836 (2013.01); A61F 7/0053 (2013.01); A61F 7/007 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); A61F 2007/0054 (2013.01); A61F 2007/0086 (2013.01); A61F 2007/0093 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A thermal control unit for controlling a patient's temperature during thermal therapy, the thermal control unit comprising:
a fluid outlet adapted to fluidly couple to a fluid supply line;
a fluid inlet adapted to fluidly couple to a fluid return line;
a circulation channel coupled to the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet;
a pump for circulating fluid through the circulation channel from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet;
a heat exchanger adapted to add or remove heat from the fluid circulating in the circulation channel;
a fluid temperature sensor adapted to sense a temperature of the fluid;
a patient temperature sensor port adapted to receive patient temperature readings from a patient temperature sensor;
a controller adapted to control the heat exchanger in order to control the patient's temperature; and
a user interface comprising a touch screen display adapted to display patient temperature readings on a graph having a time axis and a temperature axis, the user interface also adapted to display an event icon on the graph, the event icon corresponding to an event occurring at an event time and related to the thermal therapy, and the user interface further adapted to display the event icon at a position along the time axis corresponding to the event time,
wherein the event is one of the following: a sedation of the patient; a changing of a thermal pad coupled to the fluid supply line and fluid return line; an adjustment of a thermal pad coupled to the fluid supply line and fluid return line; a change in location of the patient temperature sensor; or a flushing of the patient's body adjacent the patient temperature sensor.