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United States Patent | 4,583,524 |
Hutchins | April 22, 1986 |
A portable self-powered electronic cardiopulmonary resuscitation prompting system includes a keyboard on the front panel for turning the apparatus on, identifying the nature of the victim, the number of rescuers, whether mouth-to-mouth resuscitation is to be given and whether the victim is conscious or unconscious. The cabinet also includes an LCD display for furnishing visual information to the rescuer and a loudspeaker for providing audible intelligible prompts that are reproduced phonemes originating with a speech synthesizer LSI chip using the PARCOR method in response to signals provided by a microcomputer that processes the information indicated by the keyboard entries.
Inventors: | Hutchins; Donald C. (Springfield, MA) |
Appl. No.: | 06/673,838 |
Filed: | November 21, 1984 |
Current U.S. Class: | 128/898 ; 434/262; 434/265 |
Current International Class: | G09B 23/28 (20060101); G09B 23/00 (20060101); A61B 019/00 () |
Field of Search: | 128/1R,630,695,696 434/227,228,230,262,265 381/51 |
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