Verfahren zum kennzeichnen und zum identifizieren von patienten in einem spital
The invention concerns a procedure for marking and for identifying patients in a hospital.
With the admission into a hospital documents are issued, which accompany the patient on the station. It can check even whether the name on its hospital bed agrees with its name. The physician can determine only whether those agrees the bed assigned patient history and the name on these sheets with the name at the head of the bed. One assumes the patient closes the information chain regarding the aforementioned allocations, so that the expected identity is guaranteed.
In most cases is also no problem. Nevertheless must be assumed during admission in urgent emergencies the patient is confused, stands under shock or is unconscious and cannot during his manipulation to his identification not contribute. This is valid about also in the Narkosefall or in the preparatory phase, in which a patient is not accessible. For these cases one is content with an indirect identification by a map, which accompanies the patient. Unfortunately mistakes, with treatments, come with which administration of medicines, when allocating of findings and even with operations forwards, which can lead to catastrophic consequences, i.e. up to the death of the patient.
The invention aims off to minimize the risk of the mistake from patients to. This is reached by that a bar code on a part of the body is applied, in particular on the sole, which personal and if necessary medical data covered and that in treatments or organizational measures an operating statement between noted a for example and the actually present patient is accomplished by reading off the bar code with a scanner. Applying a bar code on a spherical surface takes place in appropriate way via color spraying. Colors are used, which are not washable by water and soap. The patient is impaired by a Aufsprühen of the color code e.g. on the sole neither physically nor psychologically, because the color order is not at all noticeable and because the color code is not visible with a stay of the patient outside of the bed for third, so that the impression of a Degradierung of humans does not develop to a number.
In the hospital bed and/or by the physician or male nurse it is however at any time examinable whether actually the available data (like e.g. instructions for care, findings or instructions for operation) it is to be assigned to the patient. With the help of a Strichcodelesers the name or an identification can be read off from the bar code on the patient. Thus an objective Identitätsprüfung is at any time possible also with unconsciousness. With certain treatments, administration of medicines or for operation must take place such Identitätsprüfung. Such is also automatically possible by a Strichcodeleser, which to basing a bed or an operation table respectively in the space occupied with radiographs is built. On a screen the name as well as if necessary personal and medical data are indicated in addition.
Furthermore it is appropriate, if one assigns the bar code applied at the patient over an address memory contents in a central computer and concerning the patients, as for example its patient history, findings and radiographs in the memory constantly put down and during input of the bar code address correct, e.g. to the announcement on a screen, call information up. Due to minimum information by the bar code, a number, is e.g. addressed a memory of a computer, which contains data such as name, illness, POS numbers, therapy, regulations, and/or planned operations including the dates and in this connection constantly one updates. By reading the bar code in an address called under that the entire volume of data including the radiographs to be called up can.
The physician has in emergency in addition, in the case of routine all data constantly present. Since the bar code is applied on the patient directly, mistakes can be excluded.
The design shows the sole I of a patient with an example of a bar code applied by color spraying 2. it is other applications approximately by transmission of a foil in the kind of a transfer picture possible. Instead of the bar code also different optically readable codes can be used. Over a Strichcodeleser 3 the name or special indications is brought to 4 directly to the announcement on a screen or taken from a data memory with updatable in each case contents to the screen display.
4 I0 The method involves using a bar code (2) that is printed on a part of the patient's body, preferably the sole of the foot (1). The bar code contains all relevant data regarding personal data and medical treatment. The bar code is read by a hand held scanner (3). The data is transmitted to a computer (5) for output to a display (4). The bar code is compared to the bar code of the required patient to check that the correct patient is being treated, etc. The bar code can be used to obtain patient data, such as case notes, X-rays, test results, etc. I. Procedure for marking and for identifying patients in a hospital, thereby characterized that a bar code on a part of the body is applied, in particular on the sole, which personal and if necessary medical data covered and that in treatments or organizational measures an operating statement between noted a for example and the actual present patient is accomplished by reading off the bar code with a scanner. 2. Procedure according to requirement 1, by characterized that one assigns over an address memory contents in a central computer to the bar code applied at the patient and concerning the patients, as for example its patient history, findings and radiographs in the memory constantly put down and during input of the bar code address correct to the announcement, e.g. on a screen, call information up.
