JP2004239795A - Electronic tag for medical use - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a medical tag from becoming a burden on a patient, to the tag from easily coming off, and to equip the tag without applying a burden to a living organism. <P>SOLUTION: This electronic tag is constituted of a medical electronic tag attached to hair, a nail or the like, because the hair or the nail is a falling-away texture and is suitable for a transitory attaching site for individual identification for the purpose of controlling the patient and an injured person within a limited time such as a disaster and a hospitalization period, since implanting of the electronic tag in a skin for the purpose of not losing uniqueness between the patient and an ID is close to the national ID number system and has the possibility of violating the fundamental human rights. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI

Description

[0001]
[Industrial applications]
The present invention relates to a method of attaching a medical tag used for preventing a patient from being mistaken at a medical site and efficiently recording the progress of treatment.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Large hospitals require doctors and nurses to treat very large numbers of patients. For this reason, in some cases, accidents such as erroneous surgery for the patient or wrong medication are likely to occur. In order to improve such a situation, various systems have been proposed to prevent a medical error by attaching a wirelessly readable electronic tag to a patient and automatically performing medical records and the like.
[0003]
Conventional electronic tags tie a tag like a card to the patient's wrist, and the patient may remove it and lose it, which may not be enough to prevent medical errors. Was.
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
An object of the present invention is to provide a medical tag that can be worn without the burden of a patient due to the presence of the medical tag, easily falling off, and without imposing a burden on a living body.
[0005]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
Implanting an electronic tag on the skin for the purpose of maintaining the uniqueness of the patient and the ID has the potential to violate basic human rights through the use of the national numbering system, and is limited to disasters and hospital stays. In order to manage patients and injured persons, hair and nails are tissues that fall off and are suitable for a temporary mounting place for personal identification. Therefore, they are configured with medical electronic tags that can be mounted on hair, nails, and the like.
[0006]
The present invention is characterized in that a small electronic tag chip, which can be accessed wirelessly and has unique information recorded thereon, and an antenna are stacked on a dielectric sheet and adhered to nails of hands and feet.
[0007]
Generally, radio waves used to access an electronic tag mainly have a frequency of 2.4 GHz or less, and an appropriate antenna length is several centimeters or more. It's too big to stick it on your nails.
[0008]
By arranging a dielectric near the antenna, the antenna length can be reduced. Conventionally, there is a small antenna module in which an antenna is attached to a block-shaped dielectric material utilizing this property. However, if this antenna is attached to a nail, it becomes an obstacle and the risk of falling off from the nail increases.
[0009]
The present invention is characterized in that an electronic tag and a body having an antenna function are attached to a flexible film-like dielectric to form an electronic tag, and the electronic tag is attached to a nail.
[0010]
Since the nail is relatively hard and hardly deformed on the surface of the human body, the electronic tag as in the present invention can be fixed so as not to fall off easily. In addition, even if a film-like substance is stuck on the surface for a long time, there is almost no influence on the human body, and there is little effect on the human body when removing the electronic tag.
[0011]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
The following two methods are available as a method of superposing a dielectric sheet on an electronic tag chip and an antenna and attaching the sheet to a nail.
[0012]
Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 shows a mounting method (1). In the mounting method (1), a conductor forming an electronic tag chip and an antenna is attached to a flexible film-like dielectric to form a film-like electronic tag, and the film-like electronic tag is attached to a nail or a limb with an adhesive material. wear.
[0013]
FIG. 2 shows a mounting method (2). In the mounting method (2), the electronic tag chip and the conductor serving as the antenna are attached to the claws of the limbs with a dielectric adhesive.
[0014]
The mounting method (1) is suitable for application to a triage tag used at the time of a large-scale disaster, since the mounting method (1) is easy to mount on a patient and relatively easy to remove. The mounting method (2) takes a little time to mount on a patient, but can prevent the electronic tag from falling off for a long period of time, and is most suitable for a patient who has been hospitalized for a long time.
[0015]
【The invention's effect】
By using the configuration of the present invention, it is possible to provide an electronic tag that has little effect on the patient and does not fall off from the patient in any situation, so that it is possible to further prevent medical errors and increase the efficiency of the treatment. effective.
[0016]
In particular, in triage at a disaster site or in a lifesaving medical center, the color of the nail is observed to understand the circulatory dynamics, so this is a site suitable for attaching and reading the electronic tag of the present invention, so that the burden on medical staff In addition, there is an effect that it is possible to prevent medical errors and to increase the efficiency of treatment.
[0017]
The nail has a thickened epidermis, a keratinized substance with a keratinized substance, and the dielectric constant is almost constant. In addition, anatomically, the nail bed develops capillary blood vessels and is electrically effective as a grounding surface (earth). can get. Therefore, since the antenna mounted on the nail can obtain a relatively stable antenna impedance, there is an effect of preventing a reading error of the electronic tag.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a mounting example of a mounting method (1) of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a mounting example of a mounting method (2) of the present invention.
1 finger 2 nail 3 electronic element 4 conductor 5 dielectric

Claims (3)

An electronic tag for medical use, wherein an electronic tag chip capable of reading out a previously written code by radio waves, a conductor forming an antenna, and a sheet-shaped dielectric are superimposed and attached to a claw of a limb. 2. The medical electronic tag according to claim 1, wherein a conductor forming the electronic tag chip and the antenna is attached to a flexible film-like dielectric, and the film-like dielectric is attached to a nail or a limb. 2. The medical electronic tag according to claim 1, wherein a conductor forming the electronic tag chip and the antenna is affixed to nails of hands and feet with a dielectric adhesive.

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