JP2000036091A - Automatic video telephone emergency reporting device for at-home patient - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically turn ON the switch of a patient side video telephone set when the pulse abnormality or pulse stoppage or the like of an at-home patient is detected by a pulse radio wave detector, and to simultaneously video- transmit the video image of the patient and the pulse flickering lamp display or the like of the patient to a centralized management place video telephone in a device for automatically video-transmitting the automatic emergency report of the at-home patient or the like by using a video telephone set for a household and the pulse radio wave detector instead of a conventional telephone system. SOLUTION: A sensor senses the pulse wave of the at-home patient and the pulse radio wave detector receives the pulse waves converted to radio waves and transmitted. Further, when a pulse detection sensor detects the pulse abnormality, the switch of the video telephone set is automatically operated to be ON through a relay, the video image of the patient and the pulse flickering lamp display of the patient are simultaneously projected and the health state of the patient is video-confirmed without errors even in a dark room.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention provides a method of intensively managing the health of a home care patient or a solitary elderly person in each home using a videophone and a pulse radio wave detector at a specific management office. Emergency call reception is received in the form of a videophone image, the state of the patient is visually checked, and an appropriate emergency method is notified to the patient.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when performing emergency services for patients at home,
In particular, there seems to be many unsolved issues regarding how to rescue elderly patients living alone. Recently, the number of home-care patients who are unable to contact emergency services on their own due to their elderly age and suffer dire lonely deaths is increasing rapidly. This was proved in Kobe's evacuation shelter, but it is certainly an event of an aging society. At the same time, it is considered necessary to have an elderly rescue system.

[0003]

A simple emergency call system and an emergency call system for a home care patient and an elderly person living alone have already been studied in various ways at local government home care support centers and the like, and new machines have been used. However, in reality, there are still many misinformation in emergency calls from home patients, and there are many cases in which patients suffer dire loneliness, especially because they could not make their own calls. Now that this is a major social problem, the most important solution to this problem is to develop an excellent emergency call system for home patients that will never lonely kill elderly solitary elderly people. Think of it as an issue.

[0004]

Means for Solving the Problems It has been very difficult to check the status of the patient on the spot because all of the emergency callers for home patients have heretofore been all based on the wired telephone system or the wireless telephone system. Was something. Even now, emergency reports from patients are often misreported and ambulances are dispatched without confirmation of urgency. In the means of the present invention, an emergency notification system from a home patient is newly performed by a videophone notification, and a method of judging emergency treatment by watching the image of the patient without waste is used. Moreover, the feature of the present invention is that a pulse radio wave detector is used.
The pulse of the patient at home for 4 hours is detected by radio waves, and the pulse beat is displayed externally by a flashing lamp, so that the heart beat can be easily confirmed even when the patient is in a dark room. Furthermore, even if the patient's pulse suddenly stops or becomes a dangerous pulse, the sensor in the pulse radio wave detector operates and the patient's videophone switch is automatically turned on and the patient's image is automatically transmitted. It is. With the development of this new pulse radio wave detector, the video telephone line is not used except for emergency calls, and can be used economically as a normal video telephone.

[0005]

[Functions and Embodiments] The price of a small NTT video phone released in 1997 is about 125,000 yen. It can be newly installed at the home patient's home for about 170,000 yen including the installation work fee of 45,000 yen. Further NTT
Lease's lease price is about 5,000 yen per month and anyone can use it. If a national local government home care support center or a private care center, etc., fully implements a video telephone automatic emergency call centralized management center system, it can be said that a truly safe, reliable and convenient home care service can be realized. The videophone automatic emergency notification device of the present invention is considered to be a home care service system that is absolutely necessary for an aging society in the 21st century.

[0006]

As compared with the conventional telephone emergency call system, the videophone emergency call system has a great advantage that the call can be confirmed accurately, which is exactly the same as at first glance. Furthermore, in the case of a new videophone, it is considered that the existing telephone line can be used, so that it is economically and practically easy to cope particularly with the use of each patient at home. Furthermore, this videophone automatic emergency notification device is absolutely necessary not only for Japan but also for elderly home patients around the world, and there is great expectation that this technology will be exported to foreign countries.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of a line in which an emergency automatic television image of a home patient is transmitted to a central control office in response to an abnormal signal of a wristwatch type pulse radio wave transmitter.

FIG. 2 is a diagram of a patient rescue system based on a videophone emergency call for patients at home

[Explanation of symbols]

 (1) Wristwatch type pulse radio wave transmitter (2) Pulse radio wave receiving antenna (3) Pulse radio wave detector (4) 100V power supply for home use (5) Pulse pulsation signal lamp (6) Video telephone switch relay (7) TV camera ( 8) Video phone (9) Central control center video phone (10) Home care support center (11) Fire department emergency number 119

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A pulse radio wave transmitter is attached to a home patient, and a pulse radio wave detector capable of receiving the transmitted radio wave for 24 hours and externally displaying the pulse pulsation with a flashing lamp signal is installed. The health care of the patient is monitored by the videophone monitoring method. In particular, if a pulse abnormality or stoppage of the patient is detected, the patient's videophone is automatically turned on by the operation of the pulse detector, and the patient's appearance and pulse are monitored. A videophone automatic emergency call device for home patients, wherein the lamp display is automatically transmitted to a videophone at the same time.